31 Birren Road, Dungiven, Co Londonderry, BT47 4SH

Substantial two-storey vernacular farmhouse of probable pre-1832 construction, but which is likely to have started out as a more modest single-storey building, assuming its somewhat more formalised two-storey form in the early 20th century. Attached in typical linear fashion is a two-storey outbuilding, whilst to the rear there is a single-storey lean-to kitchen outshoot. To the west end there is a lower single-storey outbuilding, recently renovated. The house is located 3 kilometres south-east of Dungiven and is set on the southern slope of the picturesque valley, Enady Glen. The front elevation is asymmetric and faces roughly north, with the outbuildings to the west side. This elevation is rendered in roughcast and has a well-ordered composition with openings regular and largely evenly-spaced. The flat-headed door opening is set to the right of centre and has a timber panelled and glazed mid-1900s door. To the right side, there is a single window opening while to the left there are two more openings. Directly over each of the ground floor door and windows there is a first floor window, somewhat shorter than those below. All openings have cut stone sills and timber sash frames, mostly 1/1. The east gable is blank. The rear elevation has lost much of its render revealing the rubble construction and (Imperial) brick dressings to the windows. There is a single-storey lean-to outshoot set to the left of centre. Either side there is a window opening and directly over but slightly offset is a first floor window; all have frames as front. The gabled roof is slated and has a single brick chimneystack to the east gable. The lean-to roof has 'shaped' slates popular in the early deacades of the 20th century. The outbuilding is slightly wider that the house but shares a continuous front wall, roof slopes and ridgeline. It shares similar construction but compositionally is less ordered and more overtly vernacular in character. .