Moyallon House, 136 Stramore Road, Moyallen, Portadown, CRAIGAVON, BT63 5JZ

Moyallon House is a symmetrical two-storey-over-semi-basement three-bay detached house with attic, built in 1795 and remodelled around 1860 to designs by John Grubb Richardson. It is located to the north side of Stramore Road, north of Gilford town centre.

The building is rectangular on plan with a two-storey side wing (circa 1860) to the south and a single-storey canted bay to the north. The hipped natural slate roof has rendered chimneystacks with moulded caps and tall decorative pots. The walling is band rusticated to the ground floor and painted smooth render to the first floor, with raised quoins and a plat-band between floors and under the eaves. A moulded eaves cornice is surmounted by a parapet which is raised and contains two attic windows to north and south. Three barrel dormers break the roofline.

Windows throughout are timber sliding sash. The first floor has 2/2 sashes in segmental-arched lugged surrounds; the ground floor has tripartite sashes in lugged surrounds with panelled aprons, all with projecting painted sills. A single-storey canted bay to the north has tripartite windows with moulded architraves.

The principal elevation faces east and is raised on a stepped plinth with a metal grille over the basement, presenting three openings wide at each floor. A central doorcase at ground floor contains a raised-and-fielded eight-panel timber door with brass furniture set within an engaged portico. The portico has paired Ionic columns and swag-moulding to the fascia with triglyphs and circular motifs to the frieze, surmounted by a large timber fanlight with looped glazing.

The south elevation has two diminutive windows to the attic and is abutted by an L-shaped two-storey side wing (circa 1860), similarly styled to the main house with cast-iron ogee rainwater goods on bracketed eaves. The east elevation has a projecting bay to the right with a window to ground and first floor; the left bay is three windows wide at first floor. The ground floor has a window to the right and is abutted at left by a flat-roof extension two windows wide.

The south elevation of the side wing has two barrel dormers to the attic. The first floor has, at right, a group of three round-arched 1/1 windows in moulded surrounds with projecting sills and corbels underneath, the central window featuring a keyblock. A tripartite segmental-arched window to the ground floor right has dividing pilasters surmounted by plain entablature. The basement has a half-panelled and glazed timber door accessed via steps with smooth rendered parapet walls. At left is a round-headed geometric window at mid-level in a moulded surround with keyblock and projecting sill with corbels underneath; a four-panelled timber door to the ground floor is set in a moulded architrave.

The west elevation of the south wing has a bowed bay to left of centre with tripartite windows at first and ground floor, with windows at each floor of the flanking bays. The main house's west elevation has a central pedimented breakfront, two windows wide to each floor, flanked to either side by a window at ground and first floor. The basement has two windows at right and a window and four-panelled timber door to left. A cast-iron walkway at ground floor above the basement, supported on cast iron columns, is accessed by steps to the centre and stone steps at the north end with cast iron balustrade.

The north elevation has two diminutive windows to the attic and two windows to the first floor. The ground floor window opening at left is altered and partially filled with a timber casement window to the upper half. A canted bay projects to the right; a metal grille covers the basement.

The building sits on extensive mature grounds to the north side of Stramore Road, surrounded by mature trees and accessed via a gravelled avenue to the south. Concrete steps to the north with a modern handrail lead down to the rear garden. To the south is a single-storey gabled gardener's house abutting the east wall of the side wing, with bargeboards and finial to the gables. A paved courtyard with stable yard and associated outbuildings is to the south, partially enclosed by tall roughcast rendered walls.