25 Slopes Road, Ballydugan, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Down, BT63 5NT

Long single storey vernacular house of probable pre 1830 construction, with a half thatched, half corrugated iron covered gabled roof. The property is set on sloping ground at the end of a country lane to the SW of Slopes Road roughly 5km SW of Portadown. The asymmetric front elevation faces roughly NE. Roughly to the centre is the front entrance which consists of a relatively recent partly glazed door set within an equally recent-looking shallow flat roofed, (presumably concrete constructed), open porch. To the left of the doorway are three roughly evenly spaced and roughly similar sized, square windows. The window to far left (which is marginally larger than the other two) has a recent top hung timber frame, the other two have Georgian-like six pane timber frames. To the right of the doorway are two square windows with similar recent top hung timber frames. Due to the sloping ground the left hand side of the elevation is considerably lower than the right hand side. The front elevation is finished in white washed roughcast. The SE gable is blank and has a central projecting chimney breast. This gable is finished in unpainted cement render. Originally this gable was not exposed as the building was once considerably longer. The NW gable is blank and finished in white washed roughcast. To the right hand side of the gable part of the roughcast has fallen away revealed mud construction. To the far left on the rear elevation there is a square-ish window with top hung timber frame. To right of this is a broader window with timber frame with top hung upper openers. To the right again is a square window with top hung timber frame. To immediate right of this is a small extension with a shallow pitched corrugated iron lean-to roof. To the NW face of the extension is a square window with recent two light frame. To the SW face is a larger window with recent three light frame. To the SE face is a plain timber sheeted door. The rear elevation is finished as front. The NW half of the gabled roof is scallop thatched with coped parapets and a small rendered chimneystack to SE. The SE half of the roof is set at a lower level and covered with corrugated iron with a rendered parapet to SE gable with small rendered chimneystack. Metal guttering to SW half. The SE half of the house has considerably narrower walls to its SE, suggesting brick construction to this portion. All of the windows have painted (concrete?) cills.