House, Carbet Road, Ballynacor, Portadown, Craigavon, County Armagh, BT63 5RJ

House, Carbet Road, Ballynacor

This long single-storey farmhouse dates from before 1835 but has been substantially altered by a formal makeover dating to around 1918. The house stands south of Carbet Road, roughly two miles north of Portadown, oriented on a north-south axis with outbuildings to the south and east.

The asymmetrical west-facing front elevation features a flat-roofed porch at roughly its centre. The main entrance is a flat-arch doorway with a recent panelled timber door and lattice-paned sidelights. Windows flank the porch to its north and south faces, matching the sidelights in style. To the left of the porch are two similar-sized flat-arched windows with stone cills and replacement timber frames from the 1980s, fitted with top-hung openers and lattice panes. To the right stand two widely-spaced windows; the left one has been greatly enlarged, probably in the early 1900s, with frames matching those to the left. The north gable has no openings. The south gable contains a lower gabled shed extension with a small flat-arched window in its gable and a flat-arched doorway to its east face, fitted with a timber sheeted door.

The east elevation of the main house features a small porch extension with a mono-pitch roof and flat-arched doorway (now missing its door) to its east face. Immediately to the right is a window matching those on the front left. Beyond this extends a relatively long lean-to projection with two high-level flat-arched windows fitted with recent two-pane timber frames. Between these windows sits a flat-arched doorway with a partly glazed panelled timber door. To the right of the lean-to are two further windows matching the front left style.

The façade is finished in painted roughcast with painted smooth cement render forming decorative quoins, a base course, and window surrounds. The porch is largely finished in painted smooth cement render with some decorative roughcast panels. The roof is covered in corrugated iron with a slight overhang, plain barges, and eaves. Two rendered chimneysstacks sit symmetrically on the ridge. The render to the gable indicates the roof has been slightly raised. The rainwater goods are UPVC. The shed extension is also finished in painted roughcast with a corrugated-iron roof.

To the west of the house stands a large L-shaped single-storey outbuilding comprising several components built in stages. Some sections are clad in corrugated iron while others are roughcast finished; the roofs vary between curved, mono-pitched, and gabled forms. The corrugated-iron sections at the north end date from the early 1900s. Detached to the southwest is a large barn, partly brick and partly corrugated iron with open bays, featuring a curved Belfast Truss roof of the McTear form.

The farmyard is surfaced in a mixture of concrete and tarmac. A large garden lies to the west of the house beyond a hedge, with the yard and garden enclosed from the road by a low roughcast rendered wall.