91 Lurgan Road, Seapatrick, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 4NE

A two-bay two-storey-with-attic rendered end-terrace house, built c.1865 and located on the east side of Lurgan Road in Seapatrick. The building is square on plan with a two-storey return to the rear. It has a pitched natural slate roof with blue and black angled ridge tiles, and a rendered chimneystack with moulded caps and terracotta pots. Cast-iron ogee rainwater goods with cavetto moulded eaves are present on the principal elevation, though the rear has been replaced with uPVC.

The walling is painted smooth render on a narrow plinth. Windows are segmental-arched 2/2 timber sliding sash in moulded architraves with projecting sills; uPVC has been substituted to the rear. The principal elevation faces west and is two openings wide to each floor. At ground floor left is a three-panelled timber door with an oval glazed panel and square-headed overlight, flanked by panelled pilasters and surmounted by a cornice with console brackets. The north elevation is abutted by an adjoining building. The rear elevation has been significantly altered with a modern full-width dormer to the attic fitted with hung natural slate walling and two uPVC windows. A two-storey gabled return with mineral fibre slates, uPVC rainwater goods, and timber verge and fascia boards abuts the right side of the rear. The south elevation has windows at first floor left and right.

The property fronts the street with a paved yard to the rear enclosed by a high rendered wall with a timber-sheeted entrance gate.

The terrace was constructed as housing for supervisory staff and a shop by the local spinning firm Hayes & Co Ltd. The buildings first appear on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of c.1900 as a terraced row opposite the Hayes mill complex, captioned 'Seapatrick Mills'. They do not appear in Griffith's Valuation but first feature in the valuation fieldbook dating from 1864 to 1874, suggesting a construction date of c.1865. Numbers 91 to 95 Lurgan Road were listed initially in the fieldbook, with 97 and 99 added at a slightly later date.

The establishment of power-loom spinning and weaving mills such as Hayes at Seapatrick and Dunbar McMaster at Gilford in the early nineteenth century, combined with numerous weaving and bleaching concerns already utilising the Bann's water power, made Banbridge a centre of world linen production for many years. A photograph of part of the terrace from c.1900 appears in Young and Quail's collection 'Old Banbridge', and the terrace remains essentially unchanged from that period except for alterations to the rear and, in some cases, removal or alteration of the ornamental pediment above the front door.

Number 91 was initially listed in the fieldbook as a newly-built vacant house and yard c.1865, valued at £6 10s and leased from Frederick William Hayes and Co Ltd. Residents included John Black, Margaret Gibson (1890), James Leckey (1902) and James Radcliffe (1904). In 1901, James Leckey was a 34-year-old grocer living with his wife, three young daughters, and a general servant aged 17. The 1911 census records James Radcliffe, an engine driver, living with his wife, an 11-year-old female relative, and a male boarder who worked as a clerk. In 1916 John Smith was the tenant, followed by Henry Chaney in 1920. At the First General Revaluation in 1933-34, Henry Chaney leased the property from F W Hayes and Co Ltd. The house and yard were valued at £8 10s, with accommodation comprising a lobby, reception, three bedrooms, kitchen, scullery and a WC in the yard. The weekly rent was 5s 9d including 6d for light. The house continues in use as a dwelling. The building is recorded as architecturally undistinguished, representative of common mid-Victorian terrace types and compromised by cumulative changes including inappropriate additions to the rear and conversion to flats.