217 Victoria Road, Bready, Strabane, Co Tyrone BT82 0EB

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1905 on the site of an earlier dwelling, located to the east side of Victoria Road. Rectangular-on-plan with two-storey return, built c.1930, to east abutted at south by further single-storey lean-to porch; single-storey extension, built c.1950, to north. Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; concrete verges; yellow brick corbelled chimneys; pitched asbestos tiles to return and extension. Walls are roughcast with smooth rendered quoins over smooth rendered plinth (over rubble construction with red brick dressings). Windows are segmental-arched-headed timber framed 6/6 sliding sash in smooth rendered architraves with ear and keyblock detail to principal elevation; square-headed to rear; square-headed casement windows to return and extension; all have painted masonry sills. Principal elevation faces west and contains opening to each bay at each floor centred around square-headed four-panelled timber entrance door flanked by fixed glazed sidelights and surmounted by segmental-arched-headed fanlight; smooth rendered architrave with ear and keyblock detail. North gable is abutted by extension; exposed section is blank. Extension is blank; west elevation contains three windows; abutted at centre by flat-roofed porch contianing vertically-sheeted timber door to north and window to west and south elevations. East elevation contains verticallly-sheeted timber entrance door. East elevation is abutted at centre by return; exposed section at left contains 2/2 window at ground floor and window at first floor; exposed section at right contains single window at each floor. Gable-end of return contains window at ground floor and two windows at first floor; south elevation contains single window at first floor; abutted at ground floor by lean-to porch containing window to south and vertically-sheeted timber door to east. North elevation contains replacement timber panelled entrance door. South gable is blank. Set in yard directly accessed from road; small front garden bounded to road at west by timber fence accessed through pedestrian wrought-iron gate supported by square rendered piers. One-and-a-half-storey rendered shed building (later) to rear with barrelled corrugated roof. Roof Natural slate Walling Roughcast Windows Timber-framed segmental-arched-headed 6/6 sliding sash to west; square-headed elsewhere Rainwater goods Cast-iron half-round gutters and round downpipes