44 Learmore Road, Killen, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7SB

A detached three-bay two-storey house built around 1850, located on the east side of Learmore Road. The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey gabled porch to the north, a one-and-a-half-storey return and single-storey lean-to extension to the south. The pitched roof is natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles and leaded verges. Roughcast chimneys have concrete coping. Walls are roughcast with smooth chamfered quoins.

The principal elevation faces north with openings in each bay at both floors arranged around the central entrance porch. The porch contains a single window to the north and east elevations and a replacement four-panelled timber door to the west elevation. Windows throughout are timber-framed sliding sash, with 6/6 sashes at ground floor and 3/6 at first floor, all with exposed sash boxes, smooth architraves and painted masonry sills. The east gable is blank. The south elevation, partially obscured by the return and lean-to extension, contains a 6/6 sliding sash at ground floor and a timber casement window at first floor. The return features 2/2 sliding sash windows at each floor, the first-floor example divided horizontally, with a single casement window at ground floor on the west elevation. The lean-to contains a single vertically-sheeted timber half-door. The west gable has a single casement window at each floor.

The house retains many original features externally, though detailing was substantially altered in the early twentieth century. The plan consists of two principal rooms at each floor with supporting accommodation to the rear. The property is compromised by poor condition and weathering of historic fabric.

A range of rubble outbuildings completes the site. To the north of a farmyard is a single-storey outbuilding with hipped natural slate roof and rendered walling. To the south and west are a single-storey byre and stables with pitched corrugated metal roofs and lime-rendered rubble walls, vertically-sheeted timber doors and timber-framed windows supported by timber lintels.

A building occupying the same footprint appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1855. An outbuilding to the south west is also shown, and the third edition of 1905 shows further outbuildings to the south and east. A building is present on the first edition map of 1833 but does not appear to form the basis of subsequent structures. In Griffith's Valuation of 1859, the house, offices and land were occupied by Alexander Hamilton and leased from Sir James M Stronge, Baronet. The buildings were valued at £4 10 shillings. William Hamilton became the owner in fee under early twentieth-century land purchase legislation in 1913. Field inspection suggests the house was refurbished around this date, though this is not reflected in valuation records until 1934, when the value was raised to £6 15 shillings for the house and £1 10 shillings for outbuildings.

The house comprises a kitchen, three rooms, a scullery, four bedrooms and two unceiled attic stores. It measures 35 by 24 by 19 feet. The porch measures 5 by 8 by 8 feet and the single-storey scullery measures 15 by 9 by 12 feet. The structure is of rubble masonry, slated throughout.