95 Aughnagurgan Road, Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh BT35 0EB

This building was demolished prior to November 2021. Recorded in December 2019 as follows: Detached two-storey three-bay former shop, built c.1932-33, at corner junction of Blaney Road and Aughnagurgan Road, south-west of Newtownhamilton, Co. Armagh. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-top terracotta ridge tiles and two yellow brick gable chimneystacks with stepped masonry coping. Mixture of cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods on plain timber fascia with timber bargeboards to gable ends. Walling is mostly unpainted roughcast render with smooth render platband under eaves and smooth shallowly projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings with plain reveals and projecting masonry sills containing multi-paned timber casement windows throughout. Symmetrical principal elevation faces east with three windows to first floor and shop frontage to ground floor. Painted smooth render walling to shop frontage under projecting moulded stringcourse with mounted lettering reading ‘J. GRAY & CO. LTD’. Centrally placed double-leaf timber door under eight-paned transom and two flanking window openings containing timber casements covered by metal mesh window grilles; doorway and windows recessed from frontage with chamfered reveals to surrounds. Door opens onto concrete path at front with steps to south. South elevation has two windows to first floor with masonry lintels, plain reveals and projecting sills. Windows covered by wrought-iron window bars. Remnants of original cast-iron downpipe affixed to walling. Ground floor has hipped one-storey extension with decoration matching that of main structure. North elevation has decorative painted timber bargeboard to gable apex. Two windows to first floor with masonry lintels, plain reveals and projecting sills. Ground floor has mono-pitched one-storey extension with decoration matching that of main structure; boarded-up timber sliding sash window covered by wrought-iron window bars. Rear (west) elevation has a pitched one-and-a-half storey extension to south and a two-storey flat-roofed rear return to north. Setting Several corrugated iron outbuildings to rear of building, rear yard closed off by corrugated iron gate to south and timber shed to north. Gravelled space to front giving directly onto Aughnagurgan Road. Situated on elevated plot at junction of Blaney Road and Aughnagurgan Road with housing to north and east. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Roughcast and smooth render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron/ plastic