Formerly 125 Dungannon Road, Portadown,Craigavon, BT62 1UG

Formerly 125 Dungannon Road, Portadown

Single-storey vernacular house with attached outbuilding, located in a farmyard on a quiet country road just over 1 kilometre south of the M1 at The Birches and approximately 3 kilometres from the south shore of Lough Neagh, about 3 kilometres from Portadown town centre.

The house is four-bay and rectangular in plan with a hearth-lobby arrangement and a single-storey extension to the rear. It faces south. The walls are mud and red-brick with dry-dash render finish. The roof is corrugated tin laid over thatch. Rainwater goods are uPVC. Windows are timber sliding-sash 2/2 sashes, single-glazed, though several are currently boarded up with timber. There are three rendered red-brick chimney stacks, all lacking pots.

The front (south) elevation features a small off-centre porch with a pitched corrugated tin roof to the right. The porch has a square-headed door opening with a painted boarded-timber door, knob handle, and glazed overlight with patterned glass, painted timber bargeboard and soffit. Three square-headed window openings are positioned to the left of the porch and one to the right, all currently boarded up but visible internally as 2/2 sliding-sash windows. The windows have decorative smooth render bands around them and red-brick cills, also rendered smooth. A plain smooth render plinth runs at ground level. The porch walls are finished in painted smooth render.

A low single-storey outbuilding is attached to the east gable. It is plainly detailed with no window openings to the south, finished in painted rough-cast render, with a corrugated tin roof (without thatch beneath) and two metal roof lights, one missing its glass. Gutters match the main house.

The rear (north) elevation of the main house is plain, with an early to mid-20th-century extension located centrally. Two square-headed window openings are positioned either side of the extension. On the left, one window is boarded up and the other has been widened in the mid-20th century and fitted with a painted timber window with top-hung sections, single-glazed. On the right side, the wall of the first bay protrudes slightly, with painted timber 2/2 sliding-sash windows, single-glazed. The extension is constructed in brick with rough-cast render finish and has large square-headed window openings on the north and west elevations and a square-headed door opening to the east. Windows have painted metal frames; the north window is multi-paned and the west window has a top-opening central section. The door is painted panelled timber. The main house walls are finished in painted rough-cast render. A slightly projecting band at eaves possibly relates to mid-20th-century modifications to the thatch roof. Eaves, gutters, and roofing details match those of the front elevation. The outbuilding is plainly detailed at the rear with no openings.

The east side elevation is blank painted rough-cast render with the outbuilding attached. Eaves feature painted timber bargeboard and soffit. A single square-headed door opening is present on the east gable of the outbuilding.

The west side elevation is blank painted rough-cast render with painted timber bargeboard and soffit at eaves.

The building is set back slightly from the road in front of a modern farmyard with gravel surfacing to the front of the house and concrete hardstanding to the yard. A modern stained-timber fence on a low concrete plinth marks the front boundary. Mature shrubs and trees stand to the north and west of the house. A large lean-to shed with painted rough-cast render walls and a large corrugated metal sliding door occupies the west boundary. A modern house stands on the adjacent site to the west.