5 Magherabrack Road, Plumbridge, Strabane, Co Tyrone BT79 7EP

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry thatched vernacular dwelling, built around 1840, located to the east side of Magherabrack Road in Gallan Lower townland, Plumbridge. The house is built using traditional stone and lime construction and retains original features including a wall-hearth, box-bed, and partial thatched roof with supporting structure, though some original fabric has been lost.

The building has a rectangular direct-entry plan with a flat-roofed windbreak porch to the south, a bed outshot to the north, and attached byres to the east and west. The roof is partially collapsed thatch with lime-rendered verges and lime-rendered chimneys. Walls are lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are square-headed metal casements supported by stone lintels with stone sills throughout. The principal elevation faces south; the left bay contains a single window, and the right bay contains a single window at right, abutted at left by the flat-roofed porch with stone canopy containing a vertically-sheeted timber entrance door. The west gable is abutted by a lower rubble byre with a blank exposed section. The north elevation contains two windows at right, abutted at left by the bed outshot. The east gable is abutted by a byre. The building sits perpendicular to the road at its west side; attached rubble byres to east and west have pitched corrugated metal roofs, with the western byre further abutted by a later lean-to corrugated metal shed. A further single-storey lime-washed rubble outbuilding with pitched corrugated metal roof stands directly west of the road.

The building first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854. A further house appears nearby on the third edition of 1905. Griffith's Valuation records a "house, offices and land" occupied by Michael McAnomey and leased from Daniel Baird, valued at 15 shillings, later reduced to 10 shillings. Annual Revisions from 1860 to 1924 record the occupant's name as Michael McAnaney, with the property remaining in the McAnaney family throughout this period. In 1934, James McAnneny is recorded as the owner in fee under early twentieth-century land purchase legislation. At that time the property was valued at £1 and 5 shillings for outbuildings, comprising a kitchen and bedroom of rubble masonry and thatch. Although the building is of heritage interest, it has lost character due to loss of some original fabric and does not meet the criteria for listing.