5 Dublin Street, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4AE

A well-proportioned detached three-bay two-storey asymmetrical house, built around 1850, located on the west side of Dublin Street in Newtownstewart. The building occupies a prominent elevated position at the junction of Main Street and Dublin Road, and its lower roof pitch creates a visually distinctive contrast with the steeper pitches of its adjoining eighteenth-century neighbours.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing east. It has a pitched artificial slate roof with blue and black angled ridge tiles, and chimneystacks to each gable—the left rendered in cement, the right constructed in polychromatic brick. Half-round painted cast-iron gutters run around the roof.

The external walling is painted render. Windows are square-headed painted timber sashes with 1/1 glazing pattern and painted rendered sills. On the principal (east) elevation, the left bay contains two windows on each floor, the centre bay has a single window above a square-headed painted timber raised-and-fielded four-panelled door with a plate glass overlight. The door is accessed by four stone steps enclosed by wrought-iron railings.

The south gable is abutted by an adjoining building, with the exposed section presenting a blank, unpainted rendered surface. The rear (west) elevation is asymmetrical, with the left end projecting beyond the right. It features a variety of square-headed replacement casement windows, except to the first floor left end which retains a 2/2 sash window. A square-headed replacement timber door with overlight provides access. The right end is abutted by a lean-to shed of no architectural interest. The north gable is similarly abutted by an adjoining building, with its exposed section blank and detailed as the principal elevation.

The house is accessed directly from the street via four masonry steps with wrought-iron railings. To the west is an enclosed garden bounded by rubble walling, with a two-storey rubble outbuilding featuring painted timber doors to the rear.

The building is situated at the junction of Dublin Road and Main Street, near St. Eugene's Church of Ireland Church and the former Minor Model National School, adjoining the semi-detached 1–3 Dublin Road to the north and 7 Dublin Road to the east.

Historically, the site appears on the 1833 Ordnance Survey map, though the specific building cannot be identified in the Townland Valuation records. The first clear documentary mention occurs in Griffith's Valuation and Town Plan of 1856–64, which records the building's address as 2 Upper Street and provides dimensions: house 27.6 by 25 by 16 feet, with additions measuring 7 by 5 by 14 feet and 2.6 by 3 by 6.6 feet, together with two offices and one basement office, valued at £5 4s 6d. The property was then unoccupied and leased by Miss Emily Barton, noted as gentry in Slater's Directory of 1846. Subsequent revisions increased the valuation to £6 10s. During the 1870s, the house was occupied by John Todd and leased from Andrew Monteith, valued at £8 in 1875, which suggests improvements were carried out at that time. By 1934, valuers' notes record the house as comprising a kitchen and two rooms on the ground floor and four bedrooms on the first floor, with water only in the yard and a dry closet. At this date the value had risen to £11, and the lessor was John Doherty.