34 Ballynamagna Road, Banbridge, County Down, BT32 5BP

34 Ballynamagna Road is a detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey rendered rubblestone former dwelling with a range of three detached rubblestone outbuildings, built around 1850. The buildings are arranged around a sloping concrete paved yard at the end of a long lane to the west of Ballynamagna Road.

The former dwelling is located to the east of the yard and set on a north-south axis. It is lime rendered with rough-cast finish over rubblestone walling. The northernmost bay has a slightly lower roof than the remainder. The building features four rendered redbrick chimneystacks, sheeted timber doors and half-doors, and boarded window openings with no sills. The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and has black clay ridge tiles and redbrick eaves courses.

The north range is a detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey rubblestone outbuilding set on an east-west axis. It has exposed uncoursed rubblestone walling with rough-hewn squared quoins, a lean-to section, and external stone steps abutting the west gable. The building features gauged brick flat-arched window and door openings. To the eastern bay is a three-centred carriage arch formed in brick with sheeted timber doors.

Set parallel to the north range, further north, is a single-storey split-level two-bay rubblestone outbuilding with similar detailing.

The south side of the yard is enclosed by a single-storey rubblestone outbuilding with a large square-headed vehicular opening to the east gable and largely blocked up window and door openings.

The farmstead appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, with the current structures showing evidence of remodelling and extension over the years, most notably in the mid-nineteenth century. The early farmstead consisted of a house and outbuildings arranged to form three sides of a courtyard, with corn and flax mills in the near vicinity. Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64 records the buildings as two separate holdings, with the farmhouse newly built at the time and valued at £4.10s, leased to David Hanna by the representatives of Robert Meade. In 1872 the farm and flax mill passed to Thomas and Andrew Hanna, with the farm buildings' valuation rising to £10, suggesting rebuilding took place at this time. The 1901 census lists Thomas and Andrew Hanna in their sixties living in the house with their niece who worked as their housekeeper and a female servant. In 1906, Andrew Hanna died, leaving his property to his niece Mary Jane Radcliffe. The farm and flax mill were taken over in 1908–9 by Alexander Cromie, a farmer and mill owner. By 1911 the flax mill was recorded as offices, revalued to £6.10s. The 1911 census records the large Cromie family resident at the farm, including Alexander Cromie, aged 57, his wife Mary Eliza, their ten children, and two servants. The farm remained in the Cromie family, passing to the sixth son Norman Dickson Cromie in 1918, with a member of the family still resident in 1955. Valuation notes of the 1930s describe the house as having seven small bedrooms, a parlour and kitchen, with a rent of £3 per annum. A new scutch mill was built nearby in 1945, employing 16 men, but by the 1950s it was no longer used as a mill and had become agricultural outbuildings. The farmhouse itself has not been inhabited for some years.

Although these vernacular buildings retain much of their original appearance and continue to serve an agricultural purpose, they are of local interest only. Loss of fabric and changes over time have compromised their architectural and historical interest, and they do not merit listing. Twentieth-century outbuildings are located to the east, with a modern dwelling at Ballynamagna Road nearby.