Former Derrykevan Post Office, 134 Dungannon Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Bt62 1Lh

Single-storey, mud-walled, hearth-lobby vernacular house of pre-1835 construction, latterly also a post office. The property is located on the SW side of Dungannon Road, right next to a modern garage complex, about 6km NW of Portadown, and is set significantly below road level due to the successive re-layering of the latter’s surface. The building is rectangular gable-ended structure with a small porch to the NE-facing front. The walls are finished in painted roughcast, with the porch in plain painted render. The roof structure is original, being constructed from roughly-hewn timber and thatched; this is now covered in corrugated metal with saw-tooth clay ridge tiles. There are three brick chimneystacks, (one to each gable, the other NW of centre), all of which appear to be 20th century, and uPVC RW goods with metal fixings. The front elevation is asymmetrical. To the right of centre is the small, gabled projecting porch which has a sheeted timber door. To left of this are three small unevenly-spaced windows with another window to the right, all with stone sills and sash frames with thick boxes and vertical margin panes. Above the second window from the left is a small painted timber sign with ‘Derrykevan Post Office’ thereon, and to the immediate right of the same window is a small boarded up recess which previously held a wall-mounted post box (which although removed has been retained by the owners). The gables are blank. The SW-facing rear elevation has three unevenly-spaced windows, as front, with a sheeted timber door to the right, and next to this, to far right, is a slightly enlarged window opening with c.1960s timber casement frame. Extending from the rear wall, to the N side is short stretch of walling in the same roughcast, which terminates in a large recent-looking rendered gate pier with modern metal gate. The large yard to the rear of the house is covered in relatively recently-laid concrete. To the front of the building is a relatively narrow flagged space, bounded, to the roadside, by a retaining wall topped with railings. There are side-gates at each gable to the front; simple painted masonry walling and decorative wrought iron gate to NW and simple painted masonry piers and similar gate to SE. Next to the NW gable are three large plastic glass recycling receptacles, whilst a metre or two to the SE is a partially rendered, partially brick-finished shed with mono-pitched corrugated roof. Attached to this is a smaller building, originally a pig crew, in brick with round arch-headed opening and a similar roof.