48 Mullahead Road, Tandragee, Craigavon, BT62 2LA

48 Mullahead Road is a four-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling with whitewashed mud walls and a corrugated metal roof (replacing original thatch). The building was constructed before 1835 and extended northward between 1835 and 1860. It is located off the Mullahead Road approximately 4.8 kilometres south-east of Portadown, set back from the road verge behind a hawthorn hedge.

The property is accessed through a pair of wrought iron gates hung from cylindrical whitewashed stone piers with dome tops. A large landscaped garden extends to the east and north-east, comprising mature trees, an ornamental pond and relatively recently constructed stone follies.

The building retains a fine and relatively unaltered exterior and interior. Windows are primarily 6/3 timber sliding sash with horns, and some historic glazing has survived intact. The walls are whitewashed mud, and the pitched corrugated metal roof has raised skews and clipped eaves with galvanised metal rainwater goods where present.

The front (north-west) elevation features a catslide windbreak porch with a vertically sheeted timber half-door flanked by a single window to the left. The bay to the far left and the bay to the right of the door each have a single window. The far right bay has a vertically sheeted timber half-door to the left and a single window to the right. Chimneys are present on the north gable and on the cross wall between the middle bays, both centred on the ridge with no pots. The north-east gable is blank.

The south-west gable has a central seven-pane ocular window at loft level and is abutted by a single-storey open-sided lean-to. The rear (east) elevation has a slightly projecting windbreak with a vertically sheeted timber half-door flanked by a single window to the left. The far left bay features a single bipartite cast iron lattice window. The bay to the right of the door has a window to the right and a diminutive fixed six-pane timber window to the left. The far right bay has a single window.

Cartographic evidence from the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1834–5 indicates a building in the same location as the current property. The Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1860 shows a building with a larger footprint, implying an extension by a further bay to the north. The Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1905 shows no further discernible changes to the footprint, which has remained unaltered since the Second Edition.

The building is an example of an increasingly rare typology that once characterised the local area. The retention of historic roof timbers and historic glazing is of particular interest. The property is currently vacant.