Site of houses, Drumgor Lane, Drumgor Road West, Drumgor, Craigavon, Co Armagh

Site formerly occupied by an early to mid 19th century vernacular grouping of two houses and a collection of outbuildings, all demolished after 1972.

The site lies to the southwest of Drumgor Lane, off Drumgor West Road, just west of Craigavon, County Armagh.

A group of buildings was shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1835, though the two main residential blocks do not appear in precisely the form they would take in the mid-19th century. Both houses appear on the revised map of 1860. No part of the group was included in the first valuation of circa 1835, but in the second valuation of 1861 the smaller house was recorded as occupied by Richard Thompson and the larger by James McNab, both dwellings leased from the representatives of William Mather and rated at £2 and £2–10–0 respectively. The valuation for the larger property rose by £2 to £4–10–0 in 1864, suggesting that it may have been extended at this point, possibly with part of the roof raised to create the two-storey section. James McNab continued to reside in the larger house until 1870, after which the lease passed to his representatives, who held it until at least 1929. The smaller property remained occupied by the Thompson family during the same period. By the early 1970s both properties had been abandoned.

According to a survey report of January 1972, the group comprised five structural blocks (designated A through E):

Block A, situated to the northwest, was a single-storey cottage with gable ends, corrugated-iron roof, and rendered chimneys. The walls were rubble, rendered and whitened. The front elevation measured about 58 feet long and featured a drop-hung window without astragals, a sheeted door, another drop-hung window with Georgian panes and dead sash, and a third drop-hung window with vertical astragals. Two outbuildings stood at the rear. The building was in poor condition.

Blocks B and C, immediately to the southeast of Block A, formed a connected structure approximately 90 feet long in three sections. The left-hand section (Block C) was two storeys with a slated gabled roof and rendered chimneys. Its left-hand gable was rubble; the front was rendered and whitened with quoins. The first floor contained a loft door and three small blocked window openings. The ground floor had a sheeted door and blocked or broken windows. The mid section was single-storey with a slated roof, right-hand gable end, and a projecting porch with shed roof and panelled door. Four windows were blocked. The walls were rubble, rendered and whitened, with quoins. The right-hand section had a lap-boarded roof and gable end, with a doorway in a rendered and whitened wall.

Block D, at the southeast corner of the site, was a single-storey store building approximately 35 feet long. The roof was partly slated and partly corrugated-iron. The walls were brick and rubble, whitened, with a sheeted gable and a doorway.

Block E, immediately northwest of Block D, was approximately 32 feet long. The single-storey section had a boarded roof and gable end with a doorway in a whitened rubble wall. The two-storey section had a slated gabled roof with a small window opening and doorway at ground floor level.

All buildings were in poor and derelict condition at the time of survey. The entire grouping was demolished sometime after 1972.