28 Deerpark Road, Old Town Deerpark, Bellaghy, Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, BT45 8LB

A one and a half storey, four bay direct entry thatched house with harled and whitened stone walls The house faces south-west overlooking the roadway to Bellaghy from the Toome/Castledawson road with the turn-off to the north-west made about two miles from Toome. The site is located three quarters of a mile from the centre of Bellaghy. The roof is thatched with flax between cement skews and there are four chimneystacks with narrow projections set midway between the level of the ridge and the top. A stack rises on each gable, there is one above the position of the kitchen hearth, with a single pot, and the other is over the left-hand wall of the pair of bedrooms to the left of the kitchen. The entrance door is timber sheeted with 2x3 glazing in the upper part. There are three 6/6 vertically sliding windows to the left (north-west) of the entrance and one to the right. The sashes are provided with stops and sills are of traditional depths. There are two small top-hung casement windows without sills in the right-hand (north-east) gable lighting the upper accommodation. The opposite north-west gable is blank. At the rear the sequence of openings from the right-hand (north-east) corner is as follows: - A 2x3 metal framed window, a timber sheeted door, a 2x3 metal framed window and a 8/8 vertically-sliding window at upper level. These openings are without sills. At this point occurs a lean-to scullery with corrugated iron roof, a timber sheeted door on the north-west side and a top-hung timber window with sill of traditional depth on the north-east side. Beyond this feature there is a top-hung metal framed window without a sill and with sashes divided into two vertically. A toilet in a lean-to corrugated iron roof structure abutting the south-east gable of the house is lighted by a plain-sashed top hung timber-framed window without a sill. The outbuildings have walls similar to the dwelling and having corrugated iron roof finish on timber rafters. There are three Ulster pillars and two traditional wrought iron blacksmith made gates, one a farm gate and the other a garden gate.