Loughgall House, 19 Main Street, Loughgall, Armagh, Co Armagh, BT61 8HZ

Loughgall House is an early 19th-century late Georgian house dating to around 1830, appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833. It retains most of its original features and forms an attractive focal point in the main street of the village.

The building is a 2-storey house with 3 bays, a basement storey, and an attic storey to the rear. The main entrance faces north. The north elevation features a hipped roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with projecting eaves on wide-spaced shaped brackets. Four chimneys of dressed stone on roughcast bases rise from the roof. The walls are rendered in wet dash with a smooth rendered plinth. A smooth rendered vertical strip marks the ground storey at the left-hand extremity.

Three windows to the first floor are rectangular timber sliding sashes, 6 over 6 with horns, set in smooth rendered reveals, with projecting painted stone cills and surmounted by rectangular drip mouldings. Two windows to the ground floor flank the central entrance: coupled rectangular timber sliding sashes, 6 over 6, but surmounted by small-paned geometrically-patterned fixed top lights, with similar reveals, cills and label mouldings as the first floor.

The central entrance comprises an original rectangular timber panelled door set between engaged Ionic columns carrying a panelled frieze with moulded cornice. The doorway is flanked by geometrically glazed sidelights and surmounted by a radially glazed and looped fanlight, all contained within an elliptically arched surround. The doorway is approached by a flight of stone steps.

The east elevation has rendered walls as the north elevation but without the plinth, and includes a pvc downpipe. One window in the main block is a rectangular timber sliding sash, 6 over 6 without horns. Extending to the left and projecting forward is the eastern rear return, 2-storey with slated roof and rendered walls. It contains three windows: rectangular timber sliding sashes, 2 over 4 to the ground floor and 3 over 6 to the upper floor, all with horns. A further extension to the eastern rear return is 2-storey, similarly slated and rendered, with one window to the first floor (6 over 6 timber sashed with horns) and one modern rectangular fixed light with opening light to the ground floor.

The rear elevation comprises the main block with two projecting rear returns, a short one to the west and a longer one to the east. All roofs are slated and walls rendered as the north elevation. Three attic dormers to the main block are gabled, containing timber sashed windows, 10 over 10 with horns. The main block between the rear returns is 3-storey, with two windows to the first floor and two to the ground floor, all rectangular timber sliding sashes, 6 over 6 without horns. One small-paned window and one basement doorway (rectangular, tongued and grooved sheeted timber with small glazed panel) serve the basement.

The west side of the main part of the rear return at the east end is 3-storey. The first floor contains one rectangular timber sliding sash window, 6 over 6 without horns. The ground floor has coupled sliding sashes, each 3 over 6 with horns. Basement windows are similar, 6 over 6 with horns. The extension to the east rear return is 2-storey, with one window to the upper floor (sashed 3 over 6 without horns) and a garage doorway to the basement. The rear return at the west end has a blind east wall.

The south wall is 3-storey. The top storey has one timber sashed window, 6 over 6 with horns. The middle storey contains coupled sashes, 6 over 6 without horns, but surmounted by geometrically glazed fixed top lights. The basement has one rectangular small-paned window.

The west wall features a projecting conservatory at top level, which is at first-floor level of the main house and sits in the angle with the main block. Below the conservatory is a rectangular doorway in the main wall, opening onto a small balcony. The conservatory is constructed of timber and contains four sashed windows on the longer west side, all 6 over 6 with horns, divided by pilasters, and one on the shorter south side, 8 over 8 with horns. An arcaded apron with moulded timber pendants runs along both sides. The underside has a flat soffit with a circular cast iron corner post resting on the balcony. The conservatory has a lean-to roof.

The balcony comprises a concrete floor slab cantilevered on a chamfered stone pillar, with a small-paned timber casement window to the base. A flight of concrete steps leads up to the balcony, with plain ironwork railings to the steps and hooped railings to the balcony. The rear wall of the main block contains a pair of French doors opening onto the balcony, glazed and panelled, with a geometrically glazed fanlight.

The west elevation has rendered walls including a smooth plinth. One window to the first floor is a rectangular timber sliding sash, as those to the first floor of the entrance front, including a label moulding.

The building stands facing the main street, set back slightly with a small garden in front, divided into two sections by the front steps. The front boundary comprises hooped railings on stone plinth walls which return at the extremities and at the front steps, with curving corners. To the left at the front is a narrow alleyway with a terrace of houses beyond it. To the right is a gateway leading to the rear, comprising a pair of square stone piers with swept pyramidal caps, attached to the main house at the left by a roughcast screen wall and containing a pair of original ornamented iron gates. A driveway leads to the garden at the rear.

The house does not have a precisely recorded date of construction, but stylistically may be dated to around 1830. From the 1830s it was occupied by agents to the Loughgall estate, with John Hardy recorded as resident in 1837, serving as both estate agent and resident magistrate for the village. The property was purchased along with the Manor House estate and the rest of the village in 1947 by the Ministry of Agriculture. It was subsequently sold into private ownership in 1975, but without its farm buildings to the rear. The house, railings and gates are extent of the listing.