Cottage/Barn at:, Nedd House, 17 Tirmacoy Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 9JB

An interesting vernacular building containing two cottages and a barn, with one still in use as a dwelling. The building dates from the early 19th century, appearing on the 1830 Ordnance Survey Map, and may date from the plantation period as claimed for other outhouses in the area.

The structure is a storey-and-a-half cottage and barn aligned north-south, with whitewashed walls and a slate roof punctuated by roof lights and two small brick chimneys on the ridge. The northern gable abuts Nedd House, while the southern end adjoins Ned Road. To the west, a line of whitewashed barns stands at an angle to the main building.

At the northern end is a cottage more recently used as a shop, with an entrance door facing the courtyard fitted with an unusual rectangular fanlight. The fanlight features finely made astragels forming rectangular panes that diminish in height—an unusual pattern more akin to 1950s fenestration, though the fanlights may have been taken from a different building. The shop window to the north, now partly blocked, has a similar glazing pattern. To the south is a door to a store room without fanlight. Further south are the rear windows of a second cottage still occupied; two of the three have had their original sashes replaced by metal casements, while a single four-pane sash survives in the centre. At the end of the elevation is a door to a store under the first-floor barn. The southern gable has a door at high level accessing the first-floor barn. At roof level, the slates abut a strapped concrete parapet. The west elevation has a small opening at high level to the barn, visually separated from the cottage by a black cast iron soil vent pipe. The cottage has a central door without fanlight, flanked by two four-pane sash windows whose alignment reveals that the eaves above are not horizontal but follow a slight slope in the ground towards Nedd House. To the rear of the shop is a small window under the eaves.

The Townley family was resident at Nedd House until 1925 and are recorded in the Griffith's Valuation of 1858 as living in the house while renting from the Fishmongers Company. According to the present occupant, Nedd House was constructed in 1909, and prior to this the Townleys lived in the house now known as the shop, which functioned as a shop until 1925 when the McSparrens purchased the farm. A tenant always occupied the second cottage. The unusual hearth crook and the fanlights to the shop are of architectural and historical interest, though much of the building has been renovated or is in poor condition.