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

Site –to the southwest of Drumgor Lane, off Drumgor West Road, just west of Craigavon- formerly occupied by a part pre 1835 vernacular grouping consisting of two houses and a collection of outbuildings, all demolished post 1972. The first survey report of January 1972 reads: ‘Group of two houses and store buildings. A- [To the northwest] Single-storey cottage, gable ends, corrugated-iron roof, rendered chimneys. Walls rubble, rendered and whitened. Front has drop-hung [i.e. sash] window, no astragals, [then a] sheeted door, [next a] drop-hung window as before, dead sash [with] Georgian panes, [then another] drop-hung window, vertical astragals. Two outbuildings at back. Condition poor. About 58ft long. Blocks B and C [to the immediate southeast of block A] in three sections. Left hand section ‘C’ two-storeys. Roof slated gabled ends. Chimneys rendered. Walls- left hand gable rubble, front rendered and whitened, quoins. First floor has loft door opening [and] three small window openings, blocked. Ground floor has sheeted door and blocked [and] broken windows. Mid section single-storey. Roof slated right hand gable end. Projecting porch [with] shed roof [and] panelled door. Four blocked windows. Walls rubble, rendered and whitened, quoins. Right hand roof lap boarded, gable end. Doorway in wall rendered and whitened. Whole about 90ft long. Block D- [To the southeast corner of the site] Single-storey store building. Ropf part slated, part corrugated-iron. Walls brick and rubble, whitened with sheeted gable. Doorway in wall. About 35ft long. Block E- [To the immediate northwest of block D] Single and two-storey building. Single-storey [section],roof boarded, gable end. Doorway in whitened rubble wall. Two-storey [section], roof slated gable ends small window opening and doorway in ground floor. About 32ft long. Condition of all buildings poor and derelict’.