28 Cushenny Road, Grange, Portadown, Co.Armagh, BT63 4JF

28 Cushenny Road is a thatched house of mud wall construction, dating from the mid-19th century (between 1840 and 1859), located in a roadside position facing west on a secondary road travelling northwards from the main road between Loughgall and Portadown in Co. Armagh. The dwelling remains largely complete, retaining its clay wall structure, traditional roof construction, and thatch beneath corrugated iron sheeting. The associated outbuildings are of similar mud wall construction.

The house occupies a prominent roadside setting with a small front garden to the right, accessed by a single hoop-iron gate. The clay walls are finished with a whitened render. The entrance door, now covered with hardboard, is recessed within a shallow lean-to windbreak porch roofed with natural slate. The door frame is beaded, with plaster continues on the jambs to form a small plinth to the porch. Rainwater goods throughout are of pressed metal. A modern chrome postal flap and external light have been added above the door.

To the right of the porch are three vertically-sliding sash windows with horizontally-divided upper sashes, now blocked and sealed externally but remaining intact internally. These windows reduce in size towards the right extremity. To the left of the porch is a further vertically-sliding window of relatively larger dimensions. At the left hand extremity of the front elevation a slate-finished buttress projects from the wall.

The roof is covered with corrugated sheeting over the original thatch. Two red brick chimney stacks rise from the roof: one on the left hand gable with decayed corbel coursing, and another left of centre over the kitchen hearth position, featuring three courses in contrasting brick. Rainwater goods are fixed to a beaded fascia at the front and directly to the wall surface at the rear.

The north gable is blank without fenestration. Outbuildings extend eastwards at right angles from the north end. The rear elevation continues with a small blocked window opening, a flush door, and a vertically-sliding window with sash stops (upper sash divided into two horizontally, lower sash plain). A modern metal-framed window has been inserted here. The south gable contains a modern metal-framed window.

Historically, the site appears undeveloped on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834–35. By the revised map of 1860, a house with a return was shown without outbuildings. The building is recorded in the second valuation of 1862, when it was leased by Alexander Lindsay from the Cope Estate, with a rateable value of £1–10–0.