Site of house, Moyraverty West Road, Moyraverty, Craigavon, Co Armagh

Site of a former house at Moyraverty West Road, to the south of the road just southwest of Craigavon, County Armagh.

A single-storey vernacular cottage of pre-1835 construction formerly occupied this site. The building was demolished sometime after 1978, and a new dwelling now stands in its place.

A structure is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1835, though it was not noted in the contemporary valuation. By the second valuation of 1861, the building contained two separate dwellings, occupied by Joshua and Nathaniel Fitzsimmons at rental values of £1-10-0 and £1-15-0 respectively. The larger dwelling was later occupied by William Fitzsimmons from 1888, followed by Catherine Gibson in 1896 and Joseph Fitzsimmons in 1909. In 1910, Joseph Fitzsimmons is recorded as occupier and freeholder of both properties, a position he maintained until at least 1929.

According to the first survey report of August 1969, the building was a single-storey cottage positioned on the crown of a drumlin, approximately 75 feet in length. The roof was slated with a sagged ridge. The walls were roughcast and whitewashed. The property faced across a cobbled yard towards rubble-walled outbuildings with corrugated-iron roofs. The building's condition was recorded as fair to poor.

A photograph taken in October 1978 shows a long building composed of two unequal sections, each apparently originally a separate dwelling. The walls appeared to be rubble-constructed. The larger section had a gabled roof covered in corrugated-iron; the smaller section's roof was possibly slated. Both sections had projecting lean-to porches to the front. The larger section's porch was positioned right of centre, with two windows to its left and two to its right, all with plain sash frames of timber. Two similar windows appeared to the right of the smaller section's porch, though the left side is obscured in the photograph. Two brick chimneystacks were visible at the far east and west, with the possibility of another at one of the gables, largely hidden from view.