3 Moyle Road, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4AP

A semi-detached three-bay two-storey house built circa 1820, located on the west side of Moyle Road in Newtownstewart. The building retains its original late Georgian urban vernacular proportions, though it has lost its original windows and doors. It features an interesting corrugated metal rear return.

The house is rectangular in plan with a single-storey gabled corrugated metal extension to the west. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimneys with original clay pots sit on the roof. The walls are finished in painted roughcast render. Windows are replacement square-headed uPVC casements, all with sandstone sills. Replacement uPVC half-round gutters and round downpipes serve the roof.

The principal elevation faces east. The left and extended right bays each contain a single window to each floor. The central bay contains a replacement square-headed six-panelled timber entrance door surmounted by a transom light, with a single window at first floor above. The south gable is abutted by the adjoining house. The west elevation contains two windows at first floor; a dipartite window at ground floor left; and a single window at ground floor right. Ground floor centre is abutted by the extension, which contains a vertically-sheeted timber entrance door and a timber casement window to the north elevation. The north gable is blank.

The house is directly accessed from the road at the east. An enclosed yard to the north-west is bounded on all sides by rubble walling, with access to the north via a pair of corrugated metal gates. Remains of a rubble outbuilding to the north-west are now covered by a corrugated gabled shed.

The buildings date to circa 1820, based on the proportions of fenestration on the facade. Originally a single dwelling, they were extended and divided into two houses circa 1890, which corresponds with wider valuation records. The building appears on the 1833 Ordnance Survey map. By Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64, it was recorded as two separate buildings on a single plot, numbered 18a and 18b, described as a house, offices, yard and garden. At this time one office was identified as a forge. The plot was occupied by Hugh Tolan and valued at £3 7s 8d. By 1899, the main house had been extended and split, with the larger section numbered 33 and valued at £6 10s, and the smaller numbered 35 and valued at £3 10s. The former forge, numbered 31, had been relocated to an outbuilding to the rear. The property is locally significant and has group value with the adjoining house (HB10/04/016B).