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

Small, single-storey vernacular house, with lime washed brick frontage, double-pitched slated roof, one of a short canted row of four similar but non-identical dwellings, all of which appear to be largely of 1871, but with this dwelling, and its immediate neighbour to the east, possibly containing the fabric of a pre-1835 structure. The row, which may have been constructed to house workers employed in a small near by mill, is set at the end of a short country lane and shares a communal ‘yard’ with a contemporary –and generally similar- pair of ‘semi-detached’ dwellings to the north [HB15/04/027E & F]. The lane leading to the houses is located to the east of Cornascriebe Road, roughly 1.4km west of Laurelvale, 3.8km west of Tandragee. This house -the largest of the grouping- is situated at the western end of the row, faces roughly northwards. It is roughly rectangular in plan, except for a small ‘step’ to the eastern side of the rear (south) wall. To the western (gabled) end there is a c.1950s single-storey pitched roof extension. The extension is narrower than the house resulting is a small step in the front wall. The front (north) wall is constructed in clay brick that has been finished with lime wash with a painted ‘plinth’. Walls to the rear are finished with lined cement render, and the walls of the extension in roughcast render. The roof is double pitched, covered with natural slate and has a small fixed skylight to the south side. Eaves are clipped without overhangs and rainwater goods have been replaced in uPVC. Chimneystacks rise on either side of the ridgeline; these are constructed in brick, rendered and have corbelled caps. The front façade is asymmetrical, with a flat-headed door opening to right with a plain timber sheeted door, and two flat-headed window openings to left, each with a 2/2 timber sash frame. The window to the far left is smaller. Window sills are painted stone. To the right side of the door is the northern face of the extension. This has one flat-headed window opening with a steel ‘Crittall’-style frame. On the rear façade of the original dwelling there are three flat-headed window openings, each with a Crittall-style steel frame. To the rear façade of the extension there is a flat-headed door opening with a timber-sheeted door. The western gable of the original house is mainly obscured by the extension. To the centre of the gable of the extension there is a flat-headed opening with a Crittall-style frame, as before.