St James' Old Rectory (AKA Earls Gift), Claudy Road, Donemana, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0PH

St James' Old Rectory, also known as Earls Gift, is a detached Georgian house built around 1790, located on the east side of Longland Road in Donemana. It is a five-bay two-storey building of rectangular plan with a two-storey canted entrance bay added around 1850 to the west elevation, a two-storey return to the north-east, and a recent single-storey hipped sunroom extension to the south.

The roof is hipped natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles over a corbelled eaves course. Roughcast chimneys with various clay pots project from the roof. The walls are roughcast over a smooth rendered plinth. Eaves are timber with raised sandstone verges to the pitched return.

Windows throughout are square-headed timber-framed sliding sash, predominantly 9/6 to ground floor and 6/3 to first floor, with some 6/6 sashes to the canted bay and return. All windows have painted masonry sills. Timber casement windows serve the return, and a painted timber top-hung replacement sash is fitted to the rear return. The sunroom extension contains uPVC windows.

The principal west elevation is dominated by the canted entrance bay, which features a round-arched-headed entrance opening with moulded surround and archivolt. Above this is a pedimented canopy containing square-headed double-leaf timber panelled entrance doors with a sunburst fanlight. The entrance is flanked by recessed cast-iron boot-scrapers and accessed by six sandstone steps. The canted bay contains a single window at first floor, and 6/6 sliding sash windows to both north and south cheeks at ground floor. Left and right of the canted bay, the exposed sections of the principal elevation each contain two windows at both floors.

The north elevation contains two windows at each floor to the left and one window at each floor to the right, with the return abutting at the left. The east elevation features, at the left, two 6/6 sliding sash windows at ground floor beneath two 6/3 sashes at first floor. A round-arched-headed stairwell window sits at centre, with the return abutting at the right. The south elevation contains a single 4/4 sash at first floor left, a 6/6 window at centre, and a single window at right. The sunroom extension abuts this elevation at ground floor, containing uPVC windows.

The north elevation of the return contains five windows at first floor and two windows at left with a single window at right on the ground floor. The east gable is blank. The south elevation of the return projects at the left with a vertically-sheeted timber entrance door at centre, flanked by a single window on the left and a large square-headed opening with corrugated metal door on the right. Two windows sit at first floor. At the right, a central replacement timber entrance door is flanked on both sides by single windows, with three windows at first floor.

The building sits within mature grounds with an enclosed yard to the south-east bounded by rubble walling, roughcast on the west elevation. A small raised lawn fronts the principal elevation, edged with masonry steps and roughcast low walling.

A multi-bay single-storey stable block stands to the south-east, with a central gabled bay containing a pair of segmental-headed carriage arches facing south-east. The roof is pitched corrugated metal and the walls are roughcast, with vertically-sheeted timber doors to the stables. Further enclosed farmyard to the south contains a range of roughcast outbuildings.

The site boundary is defined by recent random stone walling at south and west, accessed through a pair of square piers with concrete coping supporting steel gates. The east boundary is rubble walling, and the north boundary, adjacent to agricultural land, is timber fencing.

Rainwater goods are cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes throughout.