62 Poyntzpass Road, Loughbrickland, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3PL

A lime-washed stone vernacular dwelling located at the end of a narrow lane to the south side of Poyntzpass Road, south of Banbridge. The house predates 1833 and is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 as a rectangular structure with associated outbuildings. The site is situated beside a rath (fort) that survives in partial preservation.

The building is a three-bay single-storey structure, rectangular on plan with a small projecting porch to the front. The roof comprises natural slate to the left bay with corrugated metal covering elsewhere, finished with raised cement verges and three rendered chimneys. The walls are constructed of rubble stone with lime-washed lime-render; the east gable bears smooth render. Windows are timber sliding sash and casement types with projecting painted sills and timber lintels. The principal south-facing elevation is set on a gradient. To the left of centre stands a projecting cement-rendered porch containing a modern timber-sheeted door with twin layers of slates to a catslipe roof. The left bay contains a 3/3 window, while 2/2 and timber-casement windows occupy the right. The west gable is blank. Rainwater goods comprise uPVC pipes with cast-iron half-round guttering on brackets to the porch.

The outbuilding complex forms a linear range of rubble-stone and lime-rendered structures to the south of the house, with ridge levels that step with the incline. The eastern block is partially slated with corrugated metal roofing elsewhere, featuring timber-sheeted latch doors to the left and timber-sheeted doors to the right. The western block is slightly higher, fully slated with a rendered chimneystack to the ridgeline. Its walls are rubble stone and partially lime-rendered, with timber-sheeted doors to the left, a corrugated metal door to the centre, and a timber-sheeted latch door to the right. The west gable is blank.

The setting retains its original rural character. The site is accessed via a narrow lane leading to a yard, with an Ulster gateway to the east comprising roughcast-rendered piers with pointed caps supporting a wrought-iron farm gate. This leads to an inner yard enclosed to the south by a mature hedgerow on a grass verge, with another wrought-iron farm gate to the east. Modern farm gates lead westward to adjoining farmland.

Historical evidence from Ordnance Survey maps and Griffith's Valuation (1860) indicates that originally two separate dwellings under different tenancies stood on the site. A porch was added to the front facade between 1834 and 1860. Griffith's Valuation records two separate farms occupied by members of the Moorhead family: Robert Moorhead Senior's dwelling (the present house) was valued at £1 15s and occupied over seven acres; Robert Moorhead Junior's dwelling to the west (now ruined) was valued at £1 10s with approximately eleven acres. The house was roofed with perishable material (likely thatch) in 1901 according to census records. William Moorhead took over the farm in 1873 and farmed it as a three-room cottage; the 1901 census recorded him aged sixty with four adult children. Joseph Moorhead occupied the neighbouring house from 1900 until 1910, when he moved to Lisnabrague House, a larger two-storey dwelling. The neighbouring house was in ruins by 1927. Jane Moorhead, William's widow, took over after his death (by 1907), and their daughter Sarah Jane Moorhead was recorded as farming alone in the 1911 census with two young female boarders. The farm passed to the Nicholl family in 1913, subsequently held by Samuel (from 1915) and Violet (from 1949). The First General Revaluation of 1933–34 valued the house at £1 15s with 10s for agricultural outbuildings. It was partially slated and partially roofed with corrugated iron (as remains today), with a scullery extension and accommodation comprising a room, kitchen, bedrooms, and small scullery. The valuer described it as "a poor house in a poor position". One of the outbuildings opposite the house remained with the Moorhead family before passing to James Bickerstaff; it was described in 1933–34 as an old cottage with bedroom and kitchen, used as an agricultural building and separate barn, and this stone-slated structure with chimney remains on the site.

Although much of the original character of the site survives, the house retains insufficient original historic fabric. Alterations such as uPVC rainwater goods detract from its historic character. As a record-only entry, the building does not meet the legislative test for listing, with better examples of this type of rural dwelling remaining.