35-37 Bowling Green, Strabane, County Tyrone, BT82 8BW

35–37 Bowling Green is a long, two-storey solicitors' office built in the plain Georgian vernacular style, probably before 1833, originally as two separate dwellings. It sits on the east side of Bowling Green, with its long front elevation facing roughly east.

The front elevation retains considerable character. It is finished in painted lined render and features a slightly off-centre entrance consisting of a panelled timber door beneath a rectangular fanlight with chinoiserie-style tracery. To the left of the entrance is a flat-arch window with a hornless Georgian-paned timber sash frame (six panes over six) and a painted stone cill, fitted with wrought-iron security bars. Further left is a flat-arch vehicle entrance with timber double doors. To the right of the entrance there are four windows at ground floor level, with seven more at first floor directly above the ground-floor openings. All windows share the same sash design as the barred window to the left. A small traditional-style projecting sign sits above the entrance. At the far right, the façade is slightly recessed, this portion having originally belonged to a neighbouring property demolished around 1988.

The north and south gables are finished in plain cement render with no openings. The north gable once had a small pointed-arch doorway at ground-floor level, which gave access to the garden of the neighbouring property; this has since been blocked up, though its outline remains visible from within the vehicle entrance archway.

At the rear, a large gabled return projects from the left (south) side of the building. This was largely added in 1903 and has no windows or doors, but does have a number of small ventilation openings on its north face. The north face of the return is finished in unpainted roughcast. To the right of the return, on the rear façade of the main section, there are three first-floor windows, all fitted with wrought-iron security bars. The window to the far right matches those on the front elevation; the window to the left is shorter (three panes over six); and the middle window is considerably smaller, with a fixed timber frame containing nine Georgian-style panes. The rear façade is finished in unpainted cement render.

The gabled roof of the main section is largely covered in asbestos tiles, while the return and the southernmost end of the main roof are covered in a more recent artificial slate. Four unevenly spaced rendered chimneystacks rise from the ridge of the main roof. Rainwater goods are cast iron to the front and PVC-u to the rear.

The site is shown as developed on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833–34. The valuation survey plan for Strabane of 1832–34 has been lost, but the valuation book itself records a long two-storey building on this side of Bowling Green at that date, in the hands of a Colonel Barnard. This ties in with the second valuation of 1857, which records that the lease of the house and office then on the site was held by the "representatives of General Henry Bernard" — almost certainly the same man, by then promoted in rank. The 1832 valuation also records Colonel Barnard as holding a larger three-storey dwelling elsewhere on the Bowling Green, probably on the ground now occupied by the police station. If, as seems likely, he lived in the larger property, the two-storey building may have served a different purpose; the present owner believes it was once used as a barracks. Physical evidence in the form of differing wall thicknesses suggests the block was built in stages, with the northern section — from the present entrance northwards — added at a later point. The staircase in the southern portion of the building is of a type found in many late Georgian structures, suggesting that part of the building may date from around 1800.

By 1857 the building comprised two properties. The southern portion (later numbered 35) was occupied by a Lydia Carson, while the northern portion (later numbered 37) was held by a solicitor named Robert Wilson, who lived in the larger neighbouring house at what is now number 39. Number 37 served as his office, with the now-blocked archway in the north gable providing direct access between his home and his workplace. After Wilson's death around 1869, the firm was continued by another Robert Wilson and, from 1874, by a William Wilson, both presumably his sons or grandsons.

Number 35 passed through a succession of tenants: Francis M. Boyd (1863–71), John Maturin (1871–72), John Donaghy (1872), Sarah Caldwell (1872–74), Mrs Urquhart (1874–80), Mrs McCarter (1882–87), Oliver White (1887–89), and R. B. Phillips (1889–approximately 1892). In 1892 a room was taken from number 35 and added to number 37, reducing the rateable value of the former from £15 to £12. From around 1892 to 1895 the building is recorded as occupied by the Unionist Registration Association, after which it was occupied in turn by a Mrs Wilson (1895–96), a Mrs Elliott (1896), Sergeant William McCloy (1897–1902), James Magee (1902–04), and from 1905, a Thomas Brady.

In 1912, following a vacancy of around three years, the lease of number 35 was acquired by the by then expanded neighbouring solicitors' firm of Wilson and Simms, and the whole building became an office. As part of this conversion, the rear return was lengthened. In order to protect the firm's papers, this addition was, according to the contemporary valuers, made fireproof, with concrete floors and ceilings and firebrick walls. The building continues to operate as the offices of the firm of Wilson and Simms.