36 Glen Road, Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, BT51 5DB

An asymmetrical single-storey two-bay thatched direct-entry vernacular dwelling with a range of rubblestone outbuildings, pre-dating 1830 and situated on the south side of Glen Road in the townland of Craigavole, south of Garvagh. The building is now vacant.

The dwelling is an increasingly rare example of an intact thatched vernacular structure with associated outbuildings, forming an important and well-preserved vernacular group in a rural setting. The complex is a rare survivor of the vernacular tradition and is of particular architectural and historic note due to having two outshots to the rear.

The main house has a rectangular plan with outshots to the rear. The pitched roof is covered with straw thatch secured with wire fixings to metal rods. Raised masonry verges and rendered chimneystacks finish the gables. There are no rainwater goods. The walling is whitewashed lime render over rubblestone; the rear elevation exposes rubblestone with cement pointing, while the northeast gable has a scratch coat and the southwest gable is cement rendered. Windows are mostly missing and without sills, except for one 2/2 timber sash window with horns and an exposed timber lintel on the rear elevation.

The principal southeast-facing elevation is asymmetrical, with an off-centre door opening with timber frame flanked by two window openings to the right and a single window opening at the far left. The southwest gable is blank, with a corrugated tin awning at mid-level. The northwest elevation has an outshot at the centre containing a window opening; the right bay contains a 2/2 window and a shallower outshot at the right. The northeast gable is blank.

The house originally had a direct-entry plan with a gable hearth and was a two-room structure. A building shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1831–2 corresponds to the present dwelling, with a second dwelling formerly existing in the middle section between this building and a remaining outbuilding to the east; that middle section has since been demolished. The building does not appear in the Townland Valuation (1828–40), as it would have fallen below the £3 valuation threshold, but it appears in Griffith's Valuation (1856–64) occupied by Daniel Hegarty and valued at £1. The farm comprised approximately 20 acres leased from Lady Garvagh.

The second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1853 shows two further outbuildings opposite the dwelling houses, and these appear to have survived. The farm passed through the Hegarty family: to Michael Hegarty in 1878, who left it to his son Daniel Hegarty (known as Mickey) in 1894, along with grazing land on the Blackhill and cattle and farming implements. Michael Hegarty's will specified that his son's wife should allow his widow "the room of my dwelling house during her life and all the potatoes she may require for her own food, also one cut of oat meal yearly and a cow kept all the year round and if a calf I allow it to be fed on the farm until it is one year old."

Daniel Hegarty appears in the 1901 census as a farmer living in the house with his mother, young wife, baby daughter, and a 13-year-old domestic servant. The thatched two-room house was designated third class. The property was revalued in the First General Revaluation of the 1950s at £2 15 shillings, with dimensions recorded as 42 by 19 by 10 feet, then occupied by John Hegarty. The building was listed in 1996 when the thatch was covered with tin. The owner, who built a replacement dwelling nearby in the late 1990s, undertook restoration work: the roof was rethatched with County Clare water reed, the roof structure renewed, and the chimneys rebuilt by 1998. The dwelling is no longer inhabited and now serves as a store and agricultural outbuilding.

The associated rubblestone outbuildings surround the main house. To the northeast, a rubblestone stable adjoins the site where an extension formerly abutted the northeast gable (now demolished). On the south side of the lane are two detached rubblestone outbuildings and two small piggeries. The outbuildings all have pitched corrugated tin roofs, remnants of lime render to their walls, and timber-sheeted doors or half-doors. The piggery to the north has Bangor Blue slates to its roof.

The site is situated in an unspoiled rural setting south of Glen Road, surrounded by farmland and accessed via a single-track gravelled lane to the north. To the southwest of the site, slightly elevated, is a recently constructed two-storey modern house, L-shaped on plan with a pitched natural slate roof, raised stone verges, and painted roughcast rendered walls.