9 Lislaird Road, Mournebeg, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7XX

A three-bay single-storey early-nineteenth-century direct-entry vernacular house, aligned W-E on the North side of Lislaird Road. Rectangular on plan with small extension to rear. Roof is thatch under corrugated tin with concrete skews; there are lime rendered rubble stone chimneystacks with stone slab coping to gables and to party wall. Rainwater goods are half-round cast-iron. Walling is lime-washed lime-render over random rubble stone. Windows are generally 6/6 timber sashes with horns and tooled stone sills (unless otherwise stated). The roof construction comprises rough hewn pulins spaning between cross walls and rough hewn collar trusses. These support scantling rafters at close centres which are overlain with scraws. The trusses are pegged and there is evidence of scallops piercing the scraws. Principal elevation faces north. Left bay has a single 1/1 sliding sash with flush fieldstone sill. Central bay has timber-sheeted door with timber lintel and stone threshold to left and a window to right. Right bay has a single window. Gables are blank. Rear elevation is abutted by a lean-to extension detailed entirely as house and having a single 2/2 sash to south face. To its left is a 2/4 sash, to its right are three diminutive single-pane windows with flush fieldstone sills. The house is set in a simple farmyard with outbuildings to west consisting of a two-storey byre and loft abutted at south by a single storey range. The byre has a pitched slate roof with concrete skews, lower ranges have corrugated metal roofs and are partially open to one side, with roof supported on a rubble stone pier. All have lime rendered lime washed rubble stone walling. The byre has a door opening and metal-framed window to ground floor east; first floor has a slightly off centre loading door flanked by equally spaced windows at either side. There are a number of ventilation holes formed from fieldstones. North gable is abutted by a set of external stone steps with stone slab treads and kennel opening leading to a timber sheeted loading door. East elevation has a timber sheeted door, a casement and an opening to loft. The house occupies a rural setting with front yard enclosed by mature hedgerows; it is accessed by an earth lane from west. Roof: Thatch under tin Walling: Lime-washed lime-rendered rubble stone Windows: Various painted timber sash with horns RWG: Half-round cast-iron