House, off Bluestone Road, Moyraverty, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT66 8RX

A long single-storey vernacular house with integrated outbuildings, built before 1835 and located off Bluestone Road near Craigavon, County Armagh. The building was substantially modified in the early 1900s, when the window openings were regularised, a porch was added, and decorative quoins and render details were applied to formalise the front elevation.

The asymmetrical west-facing front elevation is the principal façade. Slightly left of centre stands a small projecting porch with a moulded cornice and rendered parapet; the porch entrance is a flat-arch doorway with timber door. To the left of the porch are two flat-arch windows with smooth render surrounds and timber sash frames. At the far left is another doorway with a timber-sheeted door leading to an integrated outbuilding. To the right of the porch are three unevenly spaced windows of similar design. The far right contains another integrated outbuilding accessed from the east. The entire front is finished in unpainted roughcast with smooth cement render detailing the quoins that mark the house section boundaries. The porch has similar render applied as decorative panels.

The east elevation displays less formality. From left to right it contains: a broad flat-arch carriage doorway with timber-sheeted double doors; a small flat-arch window with timber sash frame remains; a small lean-to projection with a flat-arch doorway on its south face; another flat-arch window significantly broader than the previous one with a dilapidated timber casement frame; two further windows; and a large flat-arch shed doorway without a door. The rear is finished in whitewashed roughcast, much of which has fallen away from the shed extension to reveal brick construction beneath. The north gable has a relatively small gabled shed extension with a flat-arch doorway on its east face and two small louvered ventilation openings on its west face. The south gable of the main building has no openings.

Both the main building and the extension have corrugated-iron clad gabled roofs with rendered parapets and four rendered chimneystacks; the two outer stacks appear to be dummies. The lean-to also has a corrugated-iron roof. Dilapidated remains of aluminium and cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

A building matching this structure, possibly without the shed extension, appears on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map but is not mentioned in the contemporary valuation. It is recorded in the 1862 second valuation as occupied by John Halliday, leasing from the Manchester estate, with a rateable value of £2 5 shillings. The Halliday family acquired the freehold in 1910, with William George Halliday still residing here in 1929. Post-1862 valuations record no major structural changes, though the front façade appears to have been formalised in the early 1900s. The house was occupied when surveyed in January 1972 but is now derelict.

The property sits at the end of a long overgrown drive approximately one mile southwest of Craigavon, off a minor country road to the south of Bluestone Road. A large overgrown garden occupies the front with a yard to the rear. A well with a concrete cover stands within the front garden.