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

Long single-storey farmhouse of pre-1835 construction, sited to the south of Carbet Road roughly two miles north of Portadown. The building's original vernacular appearance has been masked by a formal makeover dating to around 1918. It is now derelict.

The house is oriented on a north-south axis with a collection of outbuildings to the south and east. The asymmetrical west-facing front elevation is the main façade. Roughly at its centre is a flat-roofed porch with the main entrance on its west face, consisting of a flat-arch doorway with a recent panelled timber door with lattice-paned sidelights. Windows flank the porch to both north and south, matching the sidelights in style. To the left of the porch are two similarly-sized flat-arched windows with stone cills and replacement 1980s timber frames fitted with top-hung openers and lattice panes. To the right of the porch are two widely-spaced windows; the left one was greatly enlarged, probably in the early 1900s. Both have frames similar to those on the left. The north gable has no openings. To the south gable is a lower gabled shed extension featuring a small flat-arched window in its gable and a flat-arched doorway to its east face with a timber-sheeted door.

The east elevation shows at its far left a small porch extension with a mono-pitch roof and flat-arched doorway (now without its door) to the east face. Immediately to its right is a window matching those to the front left. Beyond this is a relatively long lean-to projection with two high-level flat-arched windows fitted with recent two-pane timber frames. A flat-arched doorway set between these windows has a partly-glazed panelled timber door. To the right of the lean-to are two windows matching the front left pattern.

The façade is finished in painted roughcast with painted smooth cement render forming 'quoins', 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 chimneystacks sit symmetrically on the ridge. The render to the gable indicates the roof has been raised slightly. UPVC rainwater goods are present. The shed extension is also finished in painted roughcast with a corrugated-iron roof. To the west of the house is a large L-shaped single-storey outbuilding comprising several components, some clad in corrugated iron and others roughcast-finished, with roofs of mixed curved, mono-pitched, and gabled forms. These have clearly been constructed in stages, with the corrugated-iron sections at the north end dating from the early 1900s. Detached to the southwest of the house is a large barn, partly brick and partly corrugated iron with an open section, featuring a curved Belfast Truss roof of the McTear form. The farmyard is partly concrete and partly tarmac-covered. A large garden beyond a hedge lies to the west of the house, with the yard and garden enclosed from the road by a low roughcast-rendered wall.

A building matching the present house appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1835 but is not noted in contemporary valuation records. It is recorded in the second valuation as a relatively old thatched building leased by William McKnight from the Manchester estate. The McKnight family acquired the freehold in 1906-7 and remained in residence until 1912, when the house passed to or was acquired by James Gilpin. In 1918 the valuers recorded that the 'old house' was 'raised and slated'. The formalisation of the window openings and application of the present render likely occurred at this time. James Gilpin is recorded as occupant until at least 1929. When surveyed in September 1974 the house was occupied by Mrs M.A. Stronge, but it is now derelict.