48 Glenedra Road, Feeny, Co Londonderry, BT47 4TP

A prominently sited mid-19th century farmhouse, probably rebuilt in the 1840s-1850s, though indicated on the 1830 Ordnance Survey map. Recently renovated, though much of the period character has been lost both inside and out.

The building is a two-storey, four-bay long house with a short back return, gabled and slated with four chimney stacks. The entrance elevation faces north and features an off-centre square-headed doorway with fanlight, fitted with a modern six-panel hardwood door and undivided fanlight. To the east is a single 16-pane sliding sash window with margin lights (a style dating from 1815) in clear glass, with smooth plaster reveals returned on edge and painted cill. On the other side of the door are two further similar windows, widely spaced. The first-floor windows directly correspond to the openings below but are lower in height, with the top sash being slightly more than half the height of the bottom one. The astragal arrangement of the windows is a good example of the type.

The walls are rendered in rough cast and painted, with bellcast over a smooth rendered plinth. Narrow vertical bands of smooth rendering mark each quoin. The eaves level sits just above the window heads. Half-round metal gutters and round downpipes are fitted throughout. The roof is covered in Bangor blue slate with red roll ridge tiles. The four chimney stacks have been rebuilt in yellow brick with chamfer and band courses; one is a dummy stack more or less in line with the entrance door. The gables are windowless.

The back return to the rear has a lean-to roof in Bangor blue slate sweeping down in line with the main roof. Windows on either side of the back return match those on the front elevation, and there is a double sliding sash window with astragals arranged as on the front. A rear door with four panels, the upper two glazed, provides secondary access. All walls are rough cast rendered and painted yellow with white trims. Barges are nonexistent, with only slate overhang. The rear main roof is similar to the front but includes two Velux rooflights to light a first-floor corridor.

To the rear of the house stand L-plan single-storey stone-built farm outbuildings with Bangor blue slated roof beginning to sag, with walls hard against the road verge. Additional modern outbuildings are present, together forming an enclosed farmyard with one gated opening to the county road. This opening features a very large flat stone lintel with a half-brick relieving arch over it.

The house is sited at right angles to the road and a short distance from Fincarn crossroads. The intervening space is a pleasant garden in front of the house. The boundary wall has been rebuilt in small rubble whinestone in a rustic manner. Original metal gates with cast iron panelled posts have been retained. The exterior was formerly covered in creeper. The house was renovated in the 1980s with help of a Northern Ireland Housing Executive grant, and was redecorated in the late 1990s. A headstone in Banagher Church of Ireland graveyard records Isabell Thompson, wife of John Thompson of Crossroads, Fincarn, who died in 1856. The Thompson family were later succeeded by the Miller family and from 1965 by the current owner's father.