Cloonty Cottage, 93 Baronscourt Road, Cloonty, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4EZ

Cloonty Cottage is an attractive one-and-a-half storey two-bay estate cottage built around 1850, situated on the east side of Cloonty Road in Newtownstewart, close to Baronscourt demesne. The building is rectangular in plan with a gabled projecting porch that rises above the eaves and a kitchen extension to the rear. The design is symmetrically arranged with strong local character throughout.

The roof is pitched and laid with local slate in diminishing courses, featuring dormers with herringbone timber apexes and cheeks and timber bargeboards, angled ridge tiles, and cement-rendered skews carrying ashlar sandstone gable chimneystacks. Brick eaves support half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. The walls are constructed of random rubble stone laid to courses, with dressed and tooled stone quoins.

The principal elevation faces north. Windows to the principal elevation are bi-partite timber casements with timber mullions, featuring brick dressings and without cills. A window sits to either side of the porch. The remaining windows are replacement timber sashes with concrete cills. The porch has a replacement glazed and sheeted timber door with brass furniture, set in stepped brick reveals and accessed by a stone step. The left gable is blank. The right gable has a window matching those of the principal elevation to its left bay.

The rear elevation is abutted at its centre by the extension, which is detailed as the house but features exposed rafter ends. There is a 2/2 sash window to the right bay only. The extension has a timber-sheeted door and a 1/1 sash with horns to its gable, along with 3/6 sashes to each cheek; all openings are formed in brick.

The house occupies a corner site at a Y-junction and is set on estate land in close proximity to the eastern boundary of Baronscourt demesne. It is surrounded by a small grass garden bounded by hedges. An axial gravel path from the principal entrance leads to a wrought-iron pedestrian gate. To the rear (south) is an outbuilding with a monopitched roof and random rubble stone walls. This comprises a garage with a square-headed opening flanked by tongue-and-groove sheeted doors accessing sheds. All entrances are formed in brick and set on large stone plinth blocks. The extension appears to have been built in the late twentieth century and has been sympathetically handled. The setting remains unspoiled.

Cloonty Cottage first appears on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map as a small, almost square rectangular building. It is shown on the 1907 map possibly slightly enlarged, and by 1947 the porch is evident. The building is not labelled on any of the Ordnance Survey maps. The property does not appear in the Townland Valuations Records (1828–1840), which record that there are no buildings in Cloonty townland worth more than five pounds a year. Griffith's Valuation (circa 1859) records that the property is leased from the Marquis of Abercorn by Jane Fyffe and is valued at £1. The valuations remain unchanged throughout the first three Annual Revision Records (1860–1881).

Together with Rock Cottage, Cloonty Cottage is an important part of the historic Baronscourt group.