House to south of 14 Ballynaloan Road, Magheracreggan, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone, BT81 7NL

A two-storey three-bay house of late nineteenth-century date, located on the west side of Ballynaloan Road, Castlederg, in Magheracreggan Townland. The building is rectangular on plan with a lean-to windbreak porch.

The house is constructed of random rubble stone with vestiges of roughcast lime render over the external walls. The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and has rendered gable chimneystacks, though rainwater goods are absent. A projecting stone eaves course survives. Windows are vestiges of 6/6 sliding sashes to the upper floor and 3/6 sashes to the first floor, all with exposed boxes and stone sills. Those on the principal elevation have a smooth lime-rendered architrave. The principal (west) elevation faces directly onto the roadside and contains an opening to each bay at both floors, including a central timber-sheeted entrance door with a four-light transom. All of these openings are contained within a stone windbreak porch fitted with half-round cast-iron rainwater goods and a lean-to natural slate roof. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation is heavily overgrown but shows sash windows to the outer bays and an offset timber door with a plank frame and vertically sheeted panels, the top panel featuring a circular porthole aperture. The right gable is also blank. The building opens directly onto the roadside and is surrounded by mature trees.

Internally, the house retains traditional construction methods and includes timber-sheeted partitions, a traditional hearth, and an unusual corner fireplace.

A building appears on the site in the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, aligned and positioned as the current structure, though it is unclear whether it represents the same building. Valuation records from 1828–1840 list a house and offices occupied by Timothy Porter and valued at £2 11 shillings. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records a house, offices, and land occupied by John Porter Senior, leased from the Marquis of Abercorn and valued at £1 15 shillings. The occupier changed to Samuel Leitch after 1864. In 1885 the property was revalued as a public house, shop, and offices, leased by John McCaskey from Samuel Leitch at a valuation of £1. Whether this represented a complete rebuilding or merely a change of use remains unclear from the records, though internal fittings including the joinery and roof structure suggest the present structure may date from this later period. James Leitch occupied the property in 1913. After 1933 Robert Dunbar leased the property from James Leitch, at which time the licensed house and shop were deleted and it reverted to house and offices only, with a revised valuation of £3 15 shillings. The valuer's notes from this period describe the house as comprising a kitchen, one room, porch, two small rooms, and two unplastered attic bedrooms. The two-storey house measures 34 by 24 by 20 feet and is of rubble masonry with slate roof. A one-storey store of rubble masonry and corrugated iron measuring 8 by 20 by 10 feet is also recorded.

The building is now recorded as derelict, and deterioration of the original fabric significantly detracts from its character.