Ashgrove House, 5 Ashgrove Road, Ballynagowan, Portadown, Co. Armagh, BT62 1PA

Detached two-storey three-bay house, built 1882 (architect unknown), on east side of Island Road approximately 2km north of Portadown, Co. Armagh. Main house with outbuildings on both sides (E and W) and rear (N), all located in rural surroundings. Original pitched natural slate roof with roll-top ridge tiles; two rendered chimneystacks with stepped cornices to gable ends; original cast-iron cyma-recta profile rainwater goods on stepped eaves and painted rendered walling throughout. Symmetrical principal elevation faces south. Projecting stringcourses integral to sills below first and ground-floor windows with projecting plinth. Centrally-placed camber-headed entrance with plaque above reading ‘ASHGROVE HOUSE FIRST ERECTED ABOUT A.D. 1700 ACCIDENTALLY BURNED DOWN AND REBUILT BY ROBERT ATKINSON J.P. BEAUMONT BELFAST 1882.’ Entrance flanked by two hipped and slated canted bay windows at ground floor with three camber-headed window openings; entrance gives onto four masonry steps to ground level. Five camber-headed windows at first floor; two above each canted bay, one above entrance; some with original two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. West elevation has painted rendered walling with projecting stringcourses and plinth continuing from principal elevation (S). Two-storey return to rear (N). Half pitched natural slate roof changing to flat roof with metal covering; mixture of replacement uPVC and original cast-iron rainwater goods; pebbledash walling with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window opening with smooth rendered surrounds and projecting masonry sills with original one-over-one and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. East elevation has painted rendered walling with single camber-headed window to south end. Single-storey lean-to abuts east wall of main house. Materials: Roof: Natural slate (original) Walling: Painted render Windows: Timber (original) RWG: cast-iron (original) / uPVC (replacement) Setting Bounded to front by garden with rendered walling and gate piers with wrought-iron gates. Bounded to rear by roughcast render walling with steel gates over entrance to yards. Courtyard to rear (N) surrounded by outbuildings of varying heights and pitches with pebbledash walling. Ashgrove House is located in a rural setting, surrounded by fields and nearby River Bann 400m to the south east.