Harrymount House Tullyvallen West Road Newtownhamilton Co Armagh BT35 0BU

Harrymount House is a southeast-facing, single storey, five bay symmetrical gentleman's residence in restrained neoclassical style, shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1834-5. The main dwelling includes returns to the west and east, with a range of outbuildings to the north forming a courtyard. The house is accessed from Tullyvallen West Road to the south via a winding tree-lined avenue with wrought iron gates hung on stone pillars.

The front elevation has a natural slate hipped roof with flush verges and terracotta ridge tiles, with two brick-built chimneys positioned equidistant on the ridge line. The walls are lime-rendered rubblestone, likely from the local quarry, with no evidence of rainwater goods. There is a pair of square-headed window openings either side of a central arched doorway with stone sills to the windows. One window remains intact with three over three single-glazed timber sliding sash margin panes with exposed box sashes. The remainder of the window openings are infilled with rubble, concrete, block and timber boarding. A corrugated sheeted gate infill covers the central entrance door opening.

The rear (northwest) elevation has the remains of three square-headed window openings, all of which are blocked or partially blocked with infill rubble. To the immediate left, a northward-projecting wall defines the easterly portion of the rear yard enclosure, while to the right a single storey corrugated tin sheet defines the westerly boundary, with timber-framed and sheeted single door access located to the right-hand side.

The west gable elevation has the remains of a one over one sliding sash window centrally located within an outline of a defined brick arch opening, infilled with rubblestone. To the left of the main block are remains of a single storey pitched tin-roofed wing, hipped at its junction with the main dwelling and having two square-headed window openings with timber cladding infill, flanked either side with outlines of former openings infilled with rubblestone. Further to the left are remains of an arched opening giving vehicular access into the courtyard.

The east gable elevation shows recent intervention in the form of a large square-headed opening, framed in parts with concrete blockwork. To the rear of the enclosed courtyard, in the northwest corner, are rubble remains of a gabled, two storey outbuilding with remnants of external step access to the upper level and the remains of east-facing circular windows at upper level. The rear enclosure is defined by rubblestone walling with occasional infill of concrete blockwork where stone is missing.

The house is attractively sited on an eminence to the south of a Bronze Age cairn, in a miniature mature parkland setting framed with mature trees and approached by a gently curved avenue. The outbuildings are carefully arranged to the rear to form a commodious courtyard, further defined by walling along the north and east sides on an axial relationship with the Bronze Age cairn surmounted by a turret or pigeon house behind. Long views are framed with mature deciduous stands of trees.