40 Carn Road, Castlederg, Co.Tyrone, BT81 7UU

A three-bay two-storey mid nineteenth-century house, located on the west side of Carn Road. Rectangular on plan with central lean-to porch. Roof is pitched natural slate with roll-moulded clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks to gables. Rainwater goods are half-round cast-iron (partially detached), over stone eaves corbel. Walling is pebble-dashed over random coursed rubble with rusticated smooth render quoins. Windows are vestiges of 3/6 and 6/6 sashes with smooth rendered reveals having decorative heads. Sills are concrete. Principal elevation faces east and is symmetrically arranged about the central lean-to porch, which has ruled-and-lined rendered walls and a concrete slab roof. Door has four bolection moulded panels with central bronze knob and rectangular geometric fanlight over. Left gable is blank and is abutted by the vestiges of a lean-to byre, now roofless and with random rubble stone walls. It has a single window opening to west, with stone lintel and sill. Rear elevation is abutted by a central lean-to extension with corrugated metal roof. There is a small window to either side at ground floor (windows gone) and first floor has two metal-framed 8/16 pivot casements. Windows to extension are gone. Right gable is blank. The house occupies a mature farmyard setting with two-storey barn to rear. There are a variety of single-storey stone outbuildings to south, with remains of pitched natural slate roofs and timber sheeted stable doors. It is accessed by a mature grassed lane from north-east. Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Pebble-dashed rubble stone Windows: Vestiges of timber sashes; metal-framed pivoting casements RWG: Half-round cast-iron