2 Harker's Hill, Cornascriebe Road, Portadown, BT62 3SS

2 Harker's Hill is a small, single-storey vernacular house forming part of a rare surviving group of six mill workers' dwellings constructed around 1871. The house is one of a short canted row of four similar but non-identical dwellings, positioned to face a pair of semi-detached houses across a communal yard—an unusual arrangement for a rural setting. The property is located at the end of a country lane east of Cornascriebe Road, approximately 1.4 kilometres west of Laurelvale and 3.8 kilometres west of Tandragee.

The house is rectangular in plan. Its front (north) wall is constructed in clay brick finished with lime wash and has a painted plinth. The rear wall is finished with lined cement render. The roof is double-pitched, covered with natural slate, and has a small fixed skylight on the south side. The eaves are clipped without overhangs; rainwater goods have been replaced in uPVC. Brick chimneystack rise on either side of the ridgeline, rendered with corbelled caps.

The front elevation is asymmetrical. To the right side is a flat-headed door opening with a plain timber sheeted door. To the left is a flat-headed window opening with a 2/2 timber sash frame and painted stone sill. On the rear southern façade, there are two flat-headed window openings: the one to the right has a 6/6 sash frame, while that to the left is smaller with a single light fixed frame.

This dwelling and its immediate neighbour to the west may contain fabric from a pre-1835 structure, as suggested by historical mapping and their position at a different angle to the eastern half of the row. A rectangular structure appears on Ordnance Survey maps of 1835 and 1860 matching the size and orientation of the western end of the row. The development was undertaken by Charles Moneypenny, who lived at present-day no. 14 Cornascriebe Road. The dwellings were originally intended to house workers employed in a mill to the rear of Moneypenny's residence; the mill remains are still extant. The group was later acquired by the Sinton family, a prominent mill-owning family, around 1903, though the mill appears to have ceased operation by that date.

By 1904, this property was recorded as a workshop. From 1917 it was connected to the neighbouring house to the east (forming part of that property); the recess for the doorway connecting them remains visible. The properties were separated again around 1933. The house accommodated various occupants over the following decades: recorded occupants included Josephine McMurray (1871–1887), Andrew Woods, Joseph Woods (from 1917), Thomas Murray (from c. 1933), George Dougan (from 1936), and Arthur Dynes (from 1966). The entire group of six dwellings was vacated by 1970 and has remained unoccupied since. The lease was acquired by the present owner's ancestor around 1930, with the freehold acquired around 1965.

The detailing and layout of the house remain largely intact both externally and internally, and the buildings retain their original urban vernacular appearance in a largely untouched rural setting. This type of grouped vernacular housing is increasingly rare, and the communal layout facing across a lane adds considerable architectural and historical interest.