3 Dublin Street, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4AE

A Grade B2 semi-detached two-storey house on the west side of Dublin Street in Newtownstewart, dated 1753. Originally part of a single larger dwelling, this property was subdivided and remodelled in 1918 into two separate two-bay dwellings: 3 Dublin Street (the left-hand portion) and 1 Dublin Street (the right-hand portion).

The building is constructed with smooth rendered walls and roughcast render to the rear. The pitched roof is covered with replacement natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles over a timber eaves course. Rendered chimneys with clay pots are ruled and lined in appearance.

The principal elevation faces east. The ground floor features a canted bay with a leaded flat roof, flanked to the right by a replacement square-headed uPVC door surmounted by a datestone inscribed 'R McG 1753'. The first-floor window on the left is a single double top-hung uPVC casement. All other windows are replacement square-headed uPVC casements with painted masonry sills. Gutters and downpipes are uPVC with ogee profile and square section respectively.

The south gable is abutted by the adjoining house (HB10/04/027), and the north gable is abutted by the adjoining house (HB10/04/026A). The rear elevation could not be assessed. The house is accessed directly from the street on the east side via three shared stone steps, with wrought iron railings enclosing a raised paved area to the left. To the west are enclosed gardens containing a two-storey rubble outbuilding, bounded by rubble walling. The site is bounded to the road at west by rubble walling.

Although the building has lost architectural interest through inappropriate window replacements to the front elevation, it occupies an important position at the top of Main Street within Newtownstewart Conservation Area and enjoys group value with 1 Dublin Street.

Historical records show the building on the 1833 Ordnance Survey Map. The first clear reference appears in Griffith's Valuation and associated Town Plan of 1856-64, where it is shown as a single building numbered 1 'Upper Street', valued at £10 5s 4d and occupied by John Rogers Esq JP, leased from Miss Emily Barton. The house offices and yard were used as a loan fund office. Subsequent valuation records document changing occupiers and valuations: by 1864, William Sterling occupied the property leasing from Andrew Monteith, valued at £10; by 1870 the value decreased to £8 10s with a note that offices were dilapidated. In 1918, the house was formally split into two properties numbered 1A and 1B, each valued at £3 10s and leased from James Ballantine.

The listing includes the house, steps, railings, walling, and outbuilding.