Flatfield Hall, 70 Sugar Island Road, Moyraverty, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT66 8RT

Flatfield Hall is a large, plain two-storey gabled farmhouse built in 1853, set on the west side of Sugar Island Road next to what was originally a crossroads, less than a mile south of Craigavon. It is a good example of a substantial early to mid-Victorian farmhouse that retains most of its historic fabric and detailing, and is well-situated within a surviving yard.

The main building is a large two-storey gabled block with a small single-storey return to the rear. This return connects to a two-storey outbuilding, with further two-storey and single-storey outbuildings arranged around a large farmyard to the west. Between the house and the road is a large garden enclosed by a rendered wall, with a pedestrian gate and a carriage entrance to the south.

The entire façade is covered in dry dash render with painted stone quoins. There is a projecting painted stone base course to the front, with a cement render base course to the other faces — the base course to the north gable being recessed. An eaves course runs along the front and rear. The roof appears to be covered in artificial slate to the front of the main block, with natural slate to the rear and over the return. The parapets appear to be rendered. There are three dry dash rendered chimneystacks: one to each gable and one to the ridge, positioned just south of centre. The rainwater goods appear to be largely aluminium.

The front (east) face of the main block is asymmetrical. To the left of centre on the ground floor is the main entrance, comprising a panelled timber door with a rectangular fanlight over, featuring margin panes and coloured glass. To the left of the entrance is a flat-arched window with a timber sash frame with horizontal panes (4 over 4) and a painted stone sill. To the right of the doorway is an identical window, with another to the right again. At first-floor level there are four more identical windows, directly in line with the ground-floor openings. Near the eaves, between the second and third first-floor windows, is a small date stone inscribed '1853'. The south gable has no openings. The north gable has a single window to the right at first-floor level, smaller than those to the front, with a timber sash frame with margin panes and coloured glass.

To the rear, the small return abuts the left-hand side of the ground floor of the main block. To the right of this junction is a large window with a Georgian-paned timber sash frame (10 over 10), and to the far right a slightly narrower window with a 6 over 6 timber sash frame. At first-floor level there are three unevenly spaced windows matching those at ground-floor right — two of these are roughly in line with the ground-floor openings. At half-landing level, between the second and third of these windows, is a large stairwell window with a timber sash frame featuring the alternating narrow and broad panes typical of the early to mid-Victorian period, semicircular heads to the uppermost panes, and coloured patterned glass. The south face of the return has a large flat-arched shed doorway to the left, then a house doorway with a timber sheeted door, then a small window with a four-pane timber frame. At the far left (west) end the return abuts an outside stair belonging to the attached two-storey outbuilding.

The outbuildings to the rear are arranged around a large concrete-surfaced yard. The largest block is to the south-west; it is stone-built with brick dressings and has a slated gabled roof. The north face has a vehicle doorway — which appears to be an enlargement of a smaller original opening — along with three pedestrian doorways (all with timber sheeted doors) and some square window openings, some partly boarded and some retaining the remains of timber frames. Similar window openings appear at first-floor level. Attached to the north-west end of this block is a large single-storey extension with part rubble and part concrete block walls and a gabled roof covered in corrugated asbestos; its windows have mid-20th century metal frames. The outbuilding to the north-west side of the yard is single-storey with rubble walls, brick dressings, and a slated gabled roof. It has been much altered in recent years, with a large vehicle doorway and two pedestrian doorways blocked up in concrete block and render, and window openings inserted. A brick-built lean-to is attached to the north-east gable, with a window with a 2 over 2 timber sash frame and a doorway with a timber sheeted door to its south-east face. The outbuilding to the north-east side of the yard is one and a half storeys, with rubble walls and a slated gabled roof matching the others. The south-west face has a large central elliptical-arched carriage entrance, with a pedestrian doorway with timber sheeted door to the right. Directly above this, at upper-floor level, is a partly boarded window. The north-west gable has a mid-20th century extension with part rubble and part concrete block walls and a corrugated asbestos gabled roof. The south-east gable has an upper-level doorway accessed via an outside stair with stone and concrete steps. To the south-east side of the yard, just south-west of the house, is a small single-storey outbuilding with a pedestrian doorway with a timber sheeted door to its north-west face.

The pedestrian gateway to the front of the house has rendered piers with pyramidal caps and an early 20th century wrought iron gate. The carriage gateway has similar piers and gates and is flanked by quadrant walls.

The date stone confirms the house was built in 1853. Nothing appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1835, and the present Sugar Island Road was not laid out until some years after that. By the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1860 the house, outbuildings and all were present, and the 1862 valuation records the occupant as a Moses Cummings, describing the property as brick built with stone quoins and noting that it contained a shop — which probably accounts for the somewhat unusual ground-floor layout of the building. Moses Cummins was succeeded by John Cummins in 1895, who remained there until at least 1929. The valuation records make no further mention of a shop after 1862. The property appears to have been acquired by the Craigavon Development Committee, presumably in the late 1960s, but was later bought back by the present occupant.