60 Moy Road, Portadown, BT62 1QW

60 Moy Road, Portadown

A rubble stone, brick and mud-walled cottage set in a rural location 3.3 kilometres north-west of Portadown, positioned 117 metres south of Moy Road on the original access to an adjacent quarry. The building forms a linear range running north-west to south-east with its front elevation facing north-east.

The front north-east elevation comprises a single storey with three store rooms to the north and a dwelling to the south. At the south-east end, an original byre has been converted to living accommodation. A single door aperture is evident with concrete block infill. Red clay brick is visible at the corner with wet dash render painted over and a painted smooth render plinth. A flat corrugated galvanised steel sheet roof slopes to the rear (south-west) with a red brick gable to the main living accommodation.

The cottage section features three uPVC windows with top hung casements, and a porch with a uPVC door and timber sheeted door to the north, though the latter is blocked up. The walls are rendered in wet dash and painted with a painted smooth render plinth. Cills and window and door surrounds are painted. A pitched corrugated galvanised steel sheet roof with a single concrete block chimney topped with a single red clay pot is present.

The store room section has three door apertures running from south to north comprising a painted timber sheeted door, a steel security door and frame, and an infilled concrete block with a uPVC window with side hung casement. The walls are painted wet dash render and the roof is pitched corrugated galvanised steel sheet.

The south-east end elevation shows the original byre converted to living accommodation, constructed of coursed rubble with red clay brick corners and timber fascia. A timber framed and sheeted return to the south-west features a contiguous metal sheet roof and uPVC ogee gutter with round downpipe.

The rear south-west elevation comprises a timber return to the south-east housing a rear door to the kitchen, accessed from a timber framed and transparent corrugated sheet roofed external seating area. A recently constructed 21st-century open-sided shed containing a pizza oven stands opposite across a gravel driveway. The walls are random rubble stone throughout with concrete blockwork window reveals. Five uPVC windows with top hung casements are present. A central block-built return with smooth sand and cement render houses an oil fired boiler with a single timber door to the south and a single steel framed single-glazed window to the north. The roof is a PPC trapezoidal steel sheet with uPVC rainwater goods. The main pitched roof is painted corrugated galvanised steel sheet with a single section of unpainted steel where a central chimney has been demolished. No window or door apertures are evident to the store room section except a rough opening in the stonework where concrete block walling internal to the storeroom is visible.

The north-west end elevation presents an end pitched gable with painted rough cast render. Original brick header eaves are visible with brick infill above where the roof has been raised and the pitch steepened. A single high level vent aperture in the stonework has been infilled with concrete block. A painted timber barge board is present.

The front elevation is defined by a band of stone cobbles running its full length, blending into bitumen macadam roadway with lawn beyond. The building sits on the original access to the quarry which runs immediately in front and is truncated by a new quarry access 75 metres to the south-east.

Finishes throughout comprise coursed rubble, random rubble, brick and concrete block infill and reveals to walls; corrugated galvanised steel sheet painted to the rear pitch and above the store rooms on the front elevation and to the entire south-west pitch, with PPC trapezoidal steel sheet to the central rear return; uPVC doors to living accommodation with timber braced and sheeted doors to store rooms and a single steel framed security door to the store; uPVC double-glazed windows throughout except for a single steel framed single-glazed window to the central rear return; and half-round uPVC rainwater goods with round downpipes throughout, with ogee gutter and round downpipe to the rear timber return at the kitchen access.