Lagan View, 25 Feney Road, Ballymagaraghan, Moira, Craigavon, County Down, BT67 0PR

Lagan View is a symmetrical three-bay two-storey farmhouse of the eighteenth century, constructed between 1780 and 1799, located north of Feney Road on the outskirts of Moira in County Down. The building sits prominently on a rural site that remains largely unspoiled, with associated outbuildings and boundary structures that contribute significantly to its historic character.

The house is rectangular in plan with a single-storey projecting porch to the front and a two-storey return to the rear. The exterior is finished in painted roughcast render with smooth rendered quoins and plinth. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles, except to the porch where terracotta ridge tiles are used, and is supported by three replacement brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods are fitted to a timber eaves board. The principal southeast-facing elevation is symmetrically arranged and five windows wide. At ground floor centre stands a single-storey gabled open porch with glazing to each cheek and a rounded-headed opening projecting inwards at waist level; the door is a replacement. Windows throughout are uPVC replacements. The southwest elevation is blank. The northwest elevation contains a window to ground and first floor on the right, with two windows flanking a replacement timber door to the left; a diminutive window sits above the right window, and to the centre is a two-storey return (lower in height) with a window to ground and first floor at its gable. The southwest elevation of this return has a uPVC door left of centre. The northeast elevation contains a window right of centre, and two diminutive windows to the first floor.

To the east stands a linear range of early roughcast rendered outbuildings with slate roofs, comprising a two-storey barn and adjoining single-storey block. The barn has three diminutive openings to each elevation, those to the northeast being round-headed openings containing recessed early timber-sheeted panels with cast-iron strap hinges. The single-storey block has a window opening to the southwest and two timber-sheeted doors to the northeast elevation.

The site is set back from the road with a long lawned and shrubbed garden to the front, divided by a central tarmacadamed pathway. To the northeast of the house is a gravelled yard containing a later smooth-rendered tin-roofed outbuilding to the north and a large corrugated metal agricultural shed to the east. To the west of the house stands a disused kiln with associated outbuildings arranged around a yard. A two-storey return and enclosed yard with small lawned garden are located to the rear.

The property is bounded to the south by the road with a roughcast rendered wall having rounded coping stones and smooth rendered plinth, interrupted by raised square piers with pointed caps and a metal pole between them. At the centre are painted smooth-render gate piers with square caps and a decorative cast-iron latch gate. The wall terminates to the west in one of two round gate piers with conical masonry caps supporting a corrugated metal gate. A roughcast low wall encloses a garden to the west. An early slate sundial on blocks stands to the front of the house.

The house first appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of the Townland of Ballymagaraghan in 1833, depicted as an oblong building less than a mile south of the River Lagan, surrounded by numerous outbuildings including the former kiln to the west and a south-east office block. By Griffith's Valuation of 1861, the grain kiln was recorded as disused and in dilapidated condition. In 1861 the farmhouse and outbuildings were occupied by Richard Hammond, who let the property from Sir Thomas Bateson, first Baron of Deramore. Hammond's occupation was valued at £7, with the kilns valued at £2 due to poor repair. By 1901 the property had passed to James Nelson Hammond, recorded in the census as occupant. The 1901 census describes the house as a first-class dwelling containing six rooms with numerous outbuildings including a stable, coach house, two cow houses, four piggeries, a boiling house and a barn. The 1901 census notes the roof was slated, though the 1911 census records it as still thatched; the timing of conversion to the current slate roof is unclear. James Nelson Hammond remained at Lagan View until his death in 1935, when the house passed to his widow Catherine and son Thomas Hammond.

The third and fourth edition Ordnance Survey maps (1903–1916) show that the east-most office range was constructed by 1903; originally single-storey, a corrugated tin storey was added in the mid-twentieth century. Further additions including a large length of offices to the west and a return to the rear of the dwelling were constructed after the fourth edition map of 1916. The house continues to be occupied; both dwelling and outbuildings are well preserved, though several outbuilding roofs have been replaced with corrugated tin. The loss of original fenestration and other architectural detailing has reduced the architectural interest of the house, which retains its distinctive early proportions. The outbuildings to the east and boundary wall to the south frame the garden and contribute to the historic integrity of the site, along with the disused kiln to the west.