Aghalee House, 13 Ballinderry Road, Aghalee, Craigavon, County Antrim, BT67 0DY

Aghalee House is a detached three-bay two-storey gabled rendered house dated 1878, which incorporates an earlier house dated 1818. The building is irregularly planned, facing east, and stands within its own grounds and farm on the west side of Ballinderry Road. The property is approached from gate screens to the north and south, with an extended gate lodge at the south entrance.

The pitched roof is natural slate with roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Three tall redbrick chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots rise through the structure. Decorative replacement timber bargeboards finish the front and side elevations. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fixed to a timber box fascia. The walling is painted ruled and lined rendered material with a projecting render plinth course and rusticated strip quoins at the corners.

The front elevation is symmetrical with a central recessed bay flanked by a pair of gabled elevations. Each gabled end features a corniced two-storey three-sided canted bay with an oculus to the attic, the surround moulded with decorative mouldings. Lancet openings at first-floor level in each gable contain pointed-headed single-pane timber sash windows with decorative hood moulding. A balcony spans the recessed central bay above the front entrance, constructed of concrete with decorative cast-iron balustrade and accessed by a replacement timber glazed door with sidelights from the first floor. The entrance door is square-headed with a replacement timber door surround and panelled sidelights retaining original leaded coloured glazing. Slender window openings flank the entrance. Square-headed window openings throughout contain original timber sash windows with cylinder glass and painted masonry sills.

The north side elevation has a 2/2 timber sash window to the first floor and a single-pane timber sash window to the ground floor. A crenellated wall extends eastward from the side elevation, possibly part of the earlier house.

The rear elevation features three gables, with the central gable projecting forward and single-storey lean-to sections to either side. The walling is rough-cast rendered with simple timber fascia. The southern lean-to, built around 1980, has a natural slate roof and timber casement windows. The northern lean-to possibly incorporates part of the earlier house and carries a corrugated cement roof with 6/6 and 4/4 timber sash windows. An elliptical-headed door opening features an early nineteenth-century timber doorcase comprising a replacement timber panelled door flanked by plain pilasters and sidelights framed by console brackets to a lintel cornice with webbed timber fanlight above, all containing cylinder glass. The south gable has 6/6 timber sash windows and the central gable has horizontally-glazed 2/2 timber sash windows to the first floor with replacement timber casement windows below.

The south side elevation is three windows wide with a chimneystack rising through the eaves and decorative timber bargeboard. Original 2/2 timber sash windows with decorative mouldings occupy the first floor, while replacement timber sash windows sit at ground level. These formerly housed two glazed door openings with cornices above.

The setting comprises landscaped grounds enclosed by a modern stone wall to the road with rendered entrance screens to north and south. The northern entrance has replacement decorative steel gates and railings. The southern entrance retains original gates and features a single-storey rendered gate lodge with natural slate roof and original 2/2 timber sash windows. A two-storey rubblestone former outbuilding to the north, possibly of seventeenth-century origin, currently undergoes renovation with a pitched artificial slate roof and large early joists visible within.