126 Portadown Road, Armagh, BT61 9HL

A single-storey, gable-ended, vernacular building of elongated layout orientated on a north-south axis, located 5.5 Km NE from Armagh City on the NW side of the main road between Portadown and Armagh. This building demonstrates the pattern of a ‘long house’ farmstead with a house on the northern end and what appears to be a cowshed at the southern end. The building steps down, following a fall in the topography, to terminate at two heavily buttressed corners on the north gable. These brick and render-faced buttresses have a pronounced batter. A small concrete blockwork kitchen extension is attached to the rear northwest corner and built into one of the buttresses. The wall construction is likely rubble stone. The current roof covering is asbestos sheet. There is evidence of blockwork walling to reduce the width of an opening in the southern cowshed. The elevations are sand-cement render with modern pebbledash to the porch. The front elevation has three windows and a porch door with painted modern cement surrounds and two full height unadorned openings to the cowshed. The replacement windows are single-glazed wooden frame, one pane over one with top opening casement. The rainwater goods are half round upvc. The single chimney stack is rendered brick. Setting Located on NW side of Portadown Road, the front entrance faces east. The site bounds the A3 to the SE, an access lane to the east and the gardens of two more recent dwellings to the south and west. What appear to be foundations are located in the garden to the NW. The front and rear gardens are bounded by high hedges and while the front garden is open to the lane, the rear garden has a five bar field gate. Materials: Walls: Rubble stone with Render/pebbledash finish Roof: Asbestos sheet Windows: timber single-glazed top casement RWGs: upvc