47A Kilmacrew Road, Magherally, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 4EP

47A Kilmacrew Road is a single storey, three bay stone house of early 19th-century origin, possibly older, with a lobby entry plan. The building is listed Grade B1 for its architectural and historical interest.

The dwelling faces east and extends southwards down the slope as a range comprising a stable, byre, and pig house. The main house is roofed with corrugated iron over remains of thatch, with stone walls retaining remnants of whitened harling. The left-hand skew is formed in concrete with no corresponding finish to the right-hand gable. A red brick chimney without corbel coursing rises above the position of the kitchen hearth. The ridge has been patched with felt.

At the front (east side), the roof extends over a windbreak porch with timber sheeted entrance door. To the right is a further timber sheeted door. To the left are two window openings: the first contains the timber frame of a small vertically sliding window with plain sashes; the second contains the timber frame of a larger vertically sliding window with sashes divided into two panes horizontally. The roadside (north) gable is roughcast and without openings. The rear retains remnants of whitened harling on stone, with a sequence of three vertically sliding windows with sashes divided into two vertically, one of which incorporates a nine-pane sash over a small plain sash. All rear lights retain frames only without glazing.

The building follows the slope of the ground, accommodated internally by sets of steps between compartments. The attached stable and byre are of exposed stone with corrugated iron roof and timber sheeted doors. A window frame with single vertical division lights the loft above the byre; a similar empty opening serves the rear. Vent holes appear as pairs in the stable and singly in the byre. The pig house, which completes the range, is of stone with recently replaced corrugated metal sheeting roof containing inset Perspex sheets on either slope. It has plastic rainwater goods, a modern timber sheeted door, newly poured concrete floor, and a roughly plastered south gable.

Early gate pillars and a pair of flat iron gates originally stood at the left-hand corner of the north gable; only one of each remains. A further single flat iron gate hangs on a rough stone upright beside the right-hand corner, with timber opposing support.

The dwelling section was modified in the past to support the corrugated iron roof covering, but early woodwork has been retained. The layout of compartments remains unaltered. During extended vacancy, changes were limited until recent modernisation of the pig house structure.

The building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834 but is not noted in near-contemporary valuation records. It was recorded in the second valuation of 1861, with occupant Thomas Russell Snr., immediate lessors Rev Thomas McCalmont and the representatives of Robert Langtry, and rateable value of £2-10-0. The house appears on Ordnance Survey maps of 1833 and 1860. A planning application to replace the building was made in 1994, and a proposal to restore the premises was approved in 2003.

The building sits on a secondary road leading from the dual carriageway between Dromore and Banbridge to the easterly road travelling southwards from Dromore to Katesbridge.