50 Annaghmare Road Crossmaglen BT35 9BG

50 Annaghmare Road, Crossmaglen is a Grade B2 listed two-storey, three-bay lobby-entry style vernacular dwelling house with a pitched slated roof and projecting entrance porch to the north. The house is shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832, with the current layout evident on the 3rd Edition map dated 1900-1907.

The building sits on an elevated site to the south of Lough Road, accessed via a long winding ascending laneway that leads to a gated concrete yard. The complex comprises the principal dwelling with single-storey outbuildings arranged to either side.

The main dwelling features a natural slate pitched roof with flush verges, terracotta ridge tiles, and brick-built chimneys to the gables and a third chimney centrally located on the ridge line. Walls are lime-rendered local rubblestone. The projecting porch has a pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and remnants of painted timber bargeboard to the gabled entrance. The porch entrance comprises a timber frame door with painted stone head and vertical timber sheeting.

The north elevation displays vertically aligned pairs of square-headed window openings either side of the porch with painted stone sills. Windows are six over six single-glazed timber sliding sash with exposed box sashes. The south elevation of the principal dwelling is partially retaining with one square-headed window opening at first floor level with remains of a six over six sliding sash timber window frame to the right of the central chimney. Immediately beneath is an infilled square-headed window opening with concrete blockwork. The west gable elevation retains remains of a two over two sliding sash window at first floor level to the left. The east gable elevation is blank. There is no evidence of rainwater goods.

To the left of the north-facing yard, Outbuilding 1 is a three-bay low-set single-storey construction with pitched corrugated tin cladding to the roof and concrete dash-rendered walls. It features two vertically sheeted doors to the right-hand side and a large garage-size opening to the left. Outbuilding 2, directly opposite, is a three-bay low-set single-storey construction with the right-hand side having a higher pitched corrugated tin roof with raised concrete verges and open front. The left portion is recessed with a lower pitch and two vertically sheeted painted timber doors. Concrete dash-rendered walls face the front, while the rear eastern elevation has a centrally located door opening with exposed rubblestone walling.

Rubble stone remnants of a building to the north, orientated perpendicular to the main dwelling, define and enclose the gated access into the concrete forecourt. This complex represents a good intact example of a lobby-entry developed vernacular dwelling with its attendant courtyard farmstead on an elevated site.