95 Lurgan Road, Seapatrick, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4NE

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic rendered mid-terrace house built c.1865, located on the east side of Lurgan Road in Seapatrick. The building is square on plan with a two-storey return to the rear.

The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles and a rendered chimneystack with moulded caps and terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods with cavetto moulded eaves (uPVC to rear) run beneath. The walling is painted smooth render on a narrow plinth.

Windows are segmental-arched 2/2 timber sliding sash in moulded architraves with projecting sills; replacement timber casements are fitted to the rear. The principal elevation faces west and is two openings wide to each floor. At ground floor left is a four-panelled timber door with square-headed overlight, flanked by panelled pilasters and surmounted by a corniced pediment with console brackets. The north elevation is abutted by the adjoining building (HB17/04/020D), and the south elevation is similarly abutted by the adjoining building (HB17/04/020B).

The rear elevation has a full-width modern dormer to the attic with two timber casement windows. The return has a timber casement window to the gable; the ground floor is concealed. The building is street-fronting with a paved yard to the rear enclosed by a high rendered wall with a timber-sheeted entrance gate.

The house was constructed as part of a terrace built by the local spinning firm Hayes & Co Ltd to house supervisory staff, with a shop also forming part of the row. The buildings are first shown on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of c.1900 as a terraced row opposite the Hayes mill complex, captioned 'Seapatrick Mills'. They do not appear in Griffith's Valuation but first appear in the valuation fieldbook dating from 1864 to 1874, supporting a tentative date of c.1865. Numbers 91 to 95 Lurgan Road are listed first in the fieldbook, with numbers 97 and 99 added at a slightly later date.

The establishment of power-loom spinning and weaving facilities such as Hayes at Seapatrick and Dunbar McMaster at Gilford in the early nineteenth century, together with numerous weaving and bleaching concerns already using the Bann's water power, placed Banbridge at the centre of world linen production for many years. A photograph of part of the terrace dating from c.1900 appears in Young and Quail's collection "Old Banbridge". The terrace remains essentially unchanged from this period, except for alterations to the rear and, in some cases, the removal or alteration of the ornamental pediment above the front door.

The house and yard were initially valued at £6 10s and leased from Frederick William Hayes and Company Limited. The first occupier listed was Thomas Connor, followed by William Spence (date not recorded) and George McClure (1887). McClure was present at the 1901 census, noted as a 50-year-old widower and farmer living with his sister and his son, a linen clerk. In 1911, McClure, still a farmer, had remarried four years previously and his son had left home. McClure was followed by James Radcliffe (1916) and John H McCoy, who had previously lived in the neighbouring house (1920). At the First General Revaluation (1933-34), the occupier was John H McCoy and the house was leased from F W Hayes & Company Limited, revalued at £7. The accommodation comprised a lobby, reception, two bedrooms, a kitchen, scullery and a water closet in the garden. The rent was 4s 10d weekly free.

The interior has been fully refurbished and the attic converted with dormer insertion to the rear. This mid-Victorian terrace is of a common type and not among the best examples. It has been compromised by cumulative changes and is not of special interest.