Tullydagan House, 16 Tullydagan Road, Lurgan, Craigavon, BT67 9LJ

Tullydagan House is a large formal two-storey Victorian farmhouse of relatively plain late-Georgian form, built around 1874 and either extended or partially rebuilt around 1895. It stands on the north side of a quiet country road, approximately 3.25 kilometres north-northwest of Lurgan town centre.

The house is L-shaped in plan, with a main gable-ended front block facing southeast and a long return also gable-ended stretching northwest. The walls are finished in painted render with raised quoins to the front block, and the roofs are covered in natural Welsh slate with rendered chimneys. Bracketed eaves detail the front elevation.

The front (southeast) elevation is symmetrical, with a doorway flanked by windows on the ground floor, and three windows aligned with these openings above. The doorway is set within a deep concave reveal with three-quarter column jambs and a moulded archivolt. Windows have replacement top-hung frames (apparently timber) with painted stone cills. The southwest elevation comprises a side of the long return and the gable of the front block. The gable has one window on each floor to the left, whilst the return has three windows to the first floor and three to the ground floor with a doorway between the left and centre openings. Some of these retain 6/6 timber sash frames, whilst others match the front elevation style. Two upper-floor windows on the return retain 2/2 timber sash frames with horizontal glazing bars. The northwest gable of the return appears to have an opening at attic level. The northeast elevation could not be fully assessed.

A short tarmac drive leads to the house, approached through a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates dating to around 1900.

The property has undergone significant alteration both externally and internally. A large proportion of original windows have been replaced with PVC. Internally, whilst cornices and door surrounds appear intact, the kitchen interior appears substantially altered and fireplaces appear to be replacements, resulting in a loss of interior quality and character.

A large collection of outbuildings stands immediately to the northwest. Directly abutting the northwest gable is a large two-storey L-shaped gabled structure, over half of which (nearest the house) is now roofless and ruinous. To the southwest, running along the roadside, is a smaller freestanding two-storey gabled outbuilding with a single-storey lean-to section to its northwest-facing gable and a flat-roofed shed to the opposite end, whose outer wall curves in line with the road. To the northwest end of the yard stands a single-storey gabled range, butted to the south by a large shed which originally had a barrel roof but is now ruinous and roofless. All outbuildings are rubble-built structures with brick-dressed openings. Roofs, where surviving, are covered in natural Welsh slate or corrugated iron. The smaller two-storey block appears largely intact and has a series of large elliptical-headed archways to its northeast-facing side.

The present house replaced a long pre-1835 single-storey thatched dwelling which stood roughly on the site of the present two-storey roadside outbuilding. This earlier building is recorded in the first valuation of May 1836 as the home of John Ellis, measuring 55 feet by 20 feet by 7 feet high, with outbuildings measuring 65 by 19.5 by 7 and 28 by 16 by 6 feet. Brownlow estate papers suggest the Ellis family had held land in Tullydagan since at least 1780. The date of the present house is uncertain. An increase in valuations from £9 to £14 noted in 1874 suggests it was built in or shortly prior to that time, a dating compatible with its styling. A further major rise to £20 in 1895 indicates substantial building work was carried out at this point. A valuers' office notebook from 1895 contains a plan showing the house and outbuildings much as they now appear, with a note reading "partly rebuilt", though the extent of this rebuilding remains unclear. It is possible that the return was extended at this time, but this remains speculative. The house and outbuildings first appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905-06, labelled as "Tullydagan House".

The work of circa 1874 was carried out by James Ellis and that of circa 1895 by William Ellis. William, who had acquired the freehold in 1892, is recorded in the 1901 census as a 48-year-old farmer and grain merchant, living here with his wife Maggie, their seven children and a young nephew. The house was noted as a first-class dwelling with 10 rooms in use. Four of the children remained resident in 1911, with 12 rooms recorded in use. The property passed to William and Maggie's eldest son, James Albert Ellis, around 1920. James Albert was a one-time member of Lurgan Rural District Council and was still resident in the 1930s.