19 Hayes Park, Lurgan Road, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4PF

19 Hayes Park, Lurgan Road, Banbridge, Co Down, is a semi-detached single-bay one-and-a-half-storey house built around 1912 as part of an early twentieth-century garden village development.

The house is constructed of rock-face moulded concrete block walling with a projecting concrete plinth course. It has a steeply pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and a decorative finial, shared with its pair. A rendered chimneystack with capstone and terracotta pots rises centrally. Single cat-slide lucarnes appear to both front and rear elevations, with exposed timber rafter feet to timber-sheeted overhanging eaves. Timber bargeboards detail all gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the external detailing. The south front elevation is single-bay with a tripartite window opening to the ground floor featuring rock-face moulded concrete mullions. A central dormer with catslide roof rises above the eaves. Square-headed window openings throughout have flush concrete lintels and splayed sills, most fitted with replacement timber casement windows, though original 1/2 timber sash windows survive at attic level to the rear and west elevations. Single square-headed door openings appear to the rear elevation (with replacement timber glazed door) and to the west elevation. A single-storey lean-to extension with concrete tiled roof, simulated rock-face moulded cement rendered walling, and central square-headed door opening was added to the east gable around 1960. A further two-storey extension in rock-face moulded concrete block, constructed around 1970, abuts the east side elevation, with the current front entrance relocated to the north elevation of this extension.

Hayes Park comprises twenty-eight semi-detached dwellings built between 1912 and 1919 by F W Hayes & Co, proprietors of Seapatrick Spinning Mills, to designs by William Larmour of Banbridge. The development is laid out as a garden village with a winding bitumac road accessed via a cul-de-sac on the east side of Lurgan Road, opposite the former mills. Numbers 19 and 20 date from 1912 and were the first houses to enter valuation records, initially valued at £4. The first eight houses (numbers 15 to 22) were constructed at a cost of £300 per pair, with rents of three shillings and sixpence per week charged per dwelling. The walls were built of concrete blocks. Valuer's notes document the original form of these dwellings, showing a small side porch and a separate store and lavatory to the rear, features largely replaced or extended in subsequent years. Contemporary photographs from shortly after construction show these original side porches, no longer evident on most houses. The dwellings were described as "English-style" houses intended for mill foremen rather than ordinary workers, and thus carried a certain status. Initially no roads led into the development, emphasizing its rural character and giving rise to the local saying "Hayes by name and a maze by nature."

The estate design was influenced by the contemporary concept of garden cities and villages, which expressed the paternalistic ideals of industrialists providing ideal, spacious, low-density housing with surrounding green spaces for their workforce. This phase of development followed earlier housing built by William Hayes, Frederick William Hayes's son, including terraces on Kilpike Road and management houses on Lurgan Road circa 1865, the red-brick Milfort Terrace on Lurgan Road opposite Seapatrick Rectory, Bannview Terrace, and the eight semi-detached dwellings at Seapatrick Villas constructed in 1908-9.

The setting includes a raised front garden enclosed by a concrete brick wall, a paved rear yard, a rear gravel area, and a pair of garden structures to the rear, constructed of rock-face moulded concrete block with timber doors. The house continues in use as a domestic dwelling.