7 Newtown Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone BT82 8DN

7 Newtown Street, Strabane is a three-bay two-storey terraced house built around 1870. It is rendered with a pitched artificial slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, and rendered chimneys shared with adjoining buildings. The windows are timber sashes with cylinder glass and horns, set in square-headed openings with painted masonry sills. The original door is also retained, a four-panelled timber door with rectangular overlight opening onto a stone step to the street. Metal rainwater goods are mounted on drive-through iron brackets. The rendered walling is painted with ruled-and-lined finish.

The building forms part of a terrace on Newtown Street, most of which have lost their original nineteenth-century fabric. This house, together with its neighbour at No. 5, preserves enough original features—notably the timber sash windows and door—to indicate the original appearance of the entire streetscape.

Historical records show that buildings were present on this site from at least 1833 according to the First Edition Ordnance Survey map, though the present structure appears to date from around 1870, as suggested by valuation evidence. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 recorded a single building on the site occupied by John R Lynch, valued at £9 and leased from John Maguire. After 1869, when Rodi Gormley became the lessor, the valuation rose to £17, indicating rebuilding. By 1874, the building had been subdivided into a shirt factory and a separate house with offices, yard and garden. The shirt factory was further divided in 1890, with half becoming the neighbouring house (No. 5), also valued at £5 10 shillings. The property has subsequently changed hands several times, with ownership passing to J Walker Craig KC in 1904. From 1934 onwards, the occupiers became the owners in fee of their respective houses.