55 Drumlegagh Church Road, Newtownstewart, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 4HG

A three-bay two-storey farmhouse with attached outbuilding, built circa 1870 and set parallel to Drumlegagh Church Road, Newtownstewart, County Tyrone. The house is well proportioned with a symmetrical arrangement that illustrates the introduction of more formally planned elements into what is essentially a traditionally constructed rural dwelling.

The rectangular plan has a central windbreak porch and is finished in lime-washed lime-render over rubble stone. The principal elevation faces east and contains 2/2 timber sash windows with exposed boxes, smooth rendered reveals and tooled stone sills. The corner stones to the main block and porch are squared and tooled. The porch itself has a lean-to natural slate roof and contains a timber glazed and sheeted door with overlight.

The pitched roof is covered in natural slate laid in diminishing courses with a partially leaded ridge, cement skews and cement-rendered gable chimneystacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods are supported on an ashlar stone eaves course. The south gable has a single window at first floor, offset to the left. The rear elevation is more vernacular in character with a mixed fenestration pattern, including a single ground floor window to the right bay; the left bay contains a timber sheeted door with narrow transom resting on cut stone plinth blocks. To its left is a 6/6 sash window, and there are two further windows with timber lintels above, that to the right also being 6/6. The north gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding.

The attached outbuilding is detailed as the house. Its rear elevation and gable each have a single four-light fixed window with stone slab sill.

The house is set close to and parallel with the road, separated by a small grassed garden planted with mature trees and bounded by a roughcast plinth wall with saddleback coping. Access from the road is via a wrought iron pedestrian gate hung on square piers. To the south lies a concrete farmyard bounded at the west by a single-storey rubble stone outbuilding range and at the south by a similarly detailed shed, each with corrugated metal roof; all jambs and corners are of roughly dressed stone.

Buildings were present on the site according to the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, though the present house dates from circa 1870. An outbuilding to the west appears on the second edition map of 1855, and a further outbuilding to the south on the third edition map of 1905. The buildings do not appear in the Townland Valuation of 1828–40, likely because they were not deemed of sufficient value at that time. In Griffith's Valuation of 1858, Arthur O'Donnell leases a house, offices and land from the Marquis of Abercorn, valued at 15 shillings. Following 1865, Matthew Boyd becomes the occupier, and the valuation is revised from 15 shillings to £4 10 shillings in 1869, indicating that a new house had been built. The valuer's note reads "good two storey house and excellent offices". Matthew Boyd becomes occupier in fee in 1907 and William Boyd in 1913. After 1934 the house is valued at £5 with £1 10 shillings for outbuildings. The valuation record describes it as comprising a kitchen, pantry, two rooms and four bedrooms, of rubble masonry and slate, measuring 35 by 23 by 19 feet, with a note that water is fairly close.

The house remains relatively intact, though the interior has been adversely affected by rainwater ingress, which has damaged much of the detailing.