Dullerton Manor House, 41 Dullerton Road, Cullion, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0LL

Dullerton Manor House is a finely detailed detached three-bay two-storey Arts-and-Crafts house built around 1890, located on the north side of Dullerton Road, Strabane. It was originally the servant house belonging to the adjacent manor house, which was subsequently lost in fire. The house remains a striking building, well constructed and delicately detailed, enhanced by its estate setting with original outbuildings to the south-east and a gate lodge located just north of Dullerton Road, with which it has considerable group value.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing west, with a two-storey canted bay at the right, a single-storey lean-to at the south gable, and a single-storey extension to the rear. The roofs are pitched asbestos-tiled with red clay ridge tiles. Two smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots rise from the structure. Timber eaves boards are supported on carved timber brackets, with timber bargeboards and decorative timber finials throughout. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods have been fitted. The building is of timber framed construction with large studding and ornamental panelling to the gables. A projecting brick groundcill runs around the building. Timber cladding is horizontally sheeted at ground floor and vertically sheeted at first floor, except where the north wall retains masonry construction from its previous adjacency to the original Dullerton Manor house. Windows are timber casements with timber cills.

The principal east elevation features a two-storey canted bay on the right with a pitched asbestos-tiled roof, decorative timber bargeboard and finial. The bay contains a three-pane-wide casement window to the south and single windows to each cheek at each floor; the first floor windows are diminished. The central bay contains the principal entrance with a five-pane-wide casement window to the left and two five-pane-wide diminished windows at first floor. The entrance comprises a glazed panelled door with sidelight over fixed panels, surmounted by a distinctive bellcast asbestos-tiled canopy with bargeboard and timber finial. This canopy is supported on a horizontally sheeted timber plinth with carved timber balusters and is accessed by three masonry steps.

The left south gable contains a three-pane-wide timber casement at ground floor right and a single window at first floor off-centre at left. Timber ornamental panelling decorates the apex. The rear west elevation is abutted at centre by a single-storey lean-to extension. The exposed section above contains a four-pane-wide window, while the right section has smooth rendered masonry construction with two three-pane-wide windows at first floor. The left exposed section contains a three-pane-wide window at each floor, with the first floor window diminished. The right north gable is abutted at left by a single-storey lean-to extension; the exposed section contains a three-pane-wide window at left and two three-pane-wide diminished windows at first floor.

The south single-storey lean-to extension is detailed to match the main house with a three-pane-wide window to its south elevation and two-pane-wide windows to each cheek. The rear west extension has a felted lean-to roof with walls detailed as the main house and uPVC casement windows. The south elevation contains a replacement timber entrance door at left and a window at right; the east elevation contains a single window; the north elevation is blank.

The house is set within a large estate to the north of Dullerton Road. The remains of the original Dullerton Manor House are still visible within the property, connected to the foundation structure of this servant house. The plinth level of the original manor is visible, along with two sets of steps and a mosaic floor, now covered with gravel, which mark the footprint of the former building. The house is accessed from Dullerton Road beside the Dullerton Manor gate lodge. The original outbuildings are located to the north.

Documentary sources indicate that a house first appears on the site on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey Map in 1854, captioned "Glenview House." By the third edition of the Ordnance Survey Map in 1906, Glenview House had fallen into disuse and a new house appears adjacent to it, captioned "Dullerton." Griffith's Valuation records the old house as leased by William Ogilby Esq. from Robert Bond Esq., comprising a house measuring 46 by 50 by 24 feet, a basement of 46 by 50 by 7.6 feet, two offices, and a gate lodge of 24 by 18 by 18 feet, valued at £34 and noted as a "very fine house." The Annual Revisions show the plot being owned by the Bond family in fee until at least 1925. Colonel, later General, William D Bond appears to have had this new house, outbuildings, and gate lodge built between 1890 and 1903, when they appear in the records valued at £96 for the house and outbuildings and £7 for the gate lodge. The new house and gate lodge are drawn onto the Valuation Map for this period.