Gate lodge, 92 Urney Road, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT82 9RT

Detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey Arts and Crafts gatelodge built c.1890, located to the south side of Urney Road, Strabane. Rectangular-on-plan facing west with central gabled bay; single-storey lean-to porch at south and north gable (indicating that the house originally contained two dwellings); single-storey lean-to extension at rear. Roofs are pitched rosemary tiles, red terracotta ridge tiles; two red brick corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots located at party walls; deep overhanging timber sheeted eaves and timber bargeboards supporting replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Walls are roughcast rendered over projecting smooth rendered plinth and red brick stepped quoins. Windows are timber casements (top lights contain leaded stained glass); contained within square-headed openings with smooth rendered banding and painted projecting masonry cills unless otherwise stated. Principal (west) elevation contains central oriel window at ground floor supported on ogee profile corbel surmounted by a jetty-bressummer at first floor containing tripartite window and mock half-timbering; tripartite window at each side. Left (north) gable is abutted by single-storey lean-to at left; dipartite timber casement at first floor; terracotta monogram plaque containing the initials ‘J. H.’, surrounded by egg and dart motif to apex. Rear (east) elevation is abutted by single-storey lean-to extension, exposed section is blank; roof of main house is synthetic slate tiled with two dormer windows. Right (south) gable is abutted by single-storey lean-to at right; dipartite timber casement at first floor. Single storey lean-to porches have cement tiled roof and red brick walls; timber framed opening to outer face (north porch glazed) and supported at corner by timber archivolt. Both open at west side and accessed by single masonry step, leading to replacement timber sheeted doors. Both porches contain stores accessed from (east) rear, north lean-to is hipped to rear. Rear extension is detailed as main block with lean-to roof, right side is synthetic slate tiled, left is replacement cement tiled. East elevation contains timber panelled entrance door off-centre at left; two windows at right; two windows at left; left and right cheeks are blank. Set within mature wooded landscape at the junction of Urney Road and Carrick Avenue; bound from road by red brick plinth wall with saddleback coping; accessed from both Carrick Avenue at west and Urney Road at North; car parking at east. Roof Rosemary tiled (west) and synthetic slate tiled (east) Walling Roughcast rendered over projecting smooth rendered plinth and red brick stepped quoins. Windows Timber casements (top lights are leaded stained glass); contained within square-headed openings with smooth rendered banding and painted projecting masonry cills RWG Replacement uPVC