5 Harker's Hill, Cornascriebe Road, Portadown, BT62 3SS

Small, single-storey vernacular house, with lime washed brick frontage and double-pitched slated roof, one of a pair of matching dwellings, which appear to be of 1871. The pair, which may have been constructed to house workers employed in a small near by mill, is set at the end of a short country lane and shares a communal ‘yard’ with a largely contemporary -and generally similar- row of four dwellings to the south [HB15/04/027A-D]. The lane leading to the houses is located to the east of Cornascriebe Road, roughly 1.4km west of Laurelvale, 3.8km west of Tandragee. This house is the easterly of the pair and is roughly square in plan but with a small rear extension to the north-east. Walls are constructed in clay brick and finished with lime wash, with a painted ‘plinth’ to front (south). The roof is double pitched, covered with natural slate and has a small fixed skylight to the rear (north) side. Eaves are clipped without overhangs and rainwater goods have been mainly replaced in uPVC. A chimneystack rises on the party wall and is set on the ridgeline; this is constructed in brick, rendered (although much of this has fallen away) and has a corbelled cap. The front façade is asymmetrical. To the left is a flat-headed door opening with a timber sheeted door. To the right are two flat-headed window openings each with a 2/2 timber sash frame. The east gable has been rebuilt in concrete block. To the right side of the rear façade is the single-storey return. This is constructed in concrete block and has a shallow single-pitch roof covered with corrugated asbestos sheeting. To the left of this (on the main façade) there are two flat-headed window openings, with 6/6 timber sash frames but astragals to the upper sash in the left window now removed.