15 Gorteade Road, Upperlands, Maghera, Co Londonderry, BT46 5SA

Small, mildly picturesque 1½ storey house dating from approximately 1889-92, located on the east side of Gorteade Road just east of the mill village of Upperlands. The building displays a symmetrical south-facing front elevation with a large projecting flat-roofed porch at its centre. The porch features a mid-20th century panelled and glazed door (now with glazed areas boarded over) and small windows to both east and west faces, also boarded over. The porch roof is mono-pitched with a very shallow pitch, covered in corrugated iron, though evidence of an original flat roof remains visible beneath the parapet.

The main building is finished in unpainted, notably rough and messy roughcast, with painted brick window sills. The front elevation is punctuated by windows to either side of the porch, and above these are two small gabled half-dormers featuring decorative pierced barges and plain sash windows with segmental-headed upper lights. The upper floor of the west gable contains two semicircular-headed windows with plain sash frames. All ground floor windows are boarded over.

The east gable includes a large lean-to projection with a smaller lean-to attached to its east side. The larger lean-to has a boarded-over door and window to its south face; the smaller lean-to has windows to both its south and north faces. All structures are finished in roughcast and roofed in slate, with the main gabled roof featuring an overhang and decorative pierced barges. Two rendered chimneystacks with coping sit one on each gable. Cast iron and PVC rainwater goods are present. The rear elevation of the main house contains two ground floor windows.

The property stands within a sizeable south-facing garden. To the west, at the roadside, are a vehicle gateway and a pedestrian gate; the latter is wrought iron and appears original, while the former is probably early to mid-20th century in date.

The house first appears on the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of 1905. Valuation revision records show that the first new houses built in this area after 1864 were constructed in 1889, with others following in 1892, all erected on land belonging to the Clark family, owners of Upperlands Mill. The precise dating of this property to either 1889 or 1892 is difficult to establish due to the absence of accompanying valuation maps. The smaller of the two lean-tos is not original to the building. The property does not meet the criteria for architectural or historic listing.