Gallany House, 32 Orchard Road, Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, BT82 9QS

Gallany House is a detached three-bay two-storey Georgian house built around 1790, though its narrow principal entrance and wider ground floor windows suggest a late date, possibly around 1820. It is located on the south side of Orchard Road in Sion Mills, County Tyrone.

The building is rectangular on plan with a two-storey return to the north-west, abutted to the south by a lower two-storey lean-to extension, and abutted to the west by one-and-a-half-storey and single-storey lean-to extensions. The roof is hipped natural slate with leaded ridges over a corbelled brick eaves course, and carries smooth rendered chimneys with various clay pots. The walls are pebbledashed over a smooth rendered plinth.

The principal elevation faces east and consists of a central round-arched-headed entrance opening in a smooth architrave with keyblock detail, containing a replacement six-panelled timber door with sidelights and transom light surmounted by a sunburst fanlight. The entrance is accessed by sandstone steps with original wrought-iron railings. Single windows flank the entrance at ground floor, with three windows at first floor. The north elevation contains a single window at each floor and is abutted by a return containing two windows to each floor. The west elevation is abutted at its left by a return containing a single window at each floor. The south elevation contains a large window to the right, abutted on its left by an extension containing a single window at ground floor right and a window to the west, with a replacement timber panelled entrance door to the east. The exposed south elevation at right contains a round-arched-headed window and square-headed window at first floor, abutted at ground floor left by a one-and-a-half-storey return containing a window at each floor, and at ground floor right by a single-storey return containing a vertically sheeted timber door and window. A further section of the south elevation contains a single window at each floor.

Windows throughout are square-headed replacement timber casements in smooth rendered architraves with sandstone sills; concrete sills serve the returns and extension. Cast-iron ogee profile gutters and round downpipes drain the roof, with uPVC to the return.

The interior retains its original character despite the replacement of windows and doors. The building retains its basic Georgian style and proportions despite alterations to the external fabric.

The house appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832–33, captioned "Gallany House" and shown as an almost enclosed square with an inner courtyard. By the second edition of 1855, only three sides are depicted. Townland Valuation records describe the property as "a dwelling and offices," originally occupied by John Smyth Esq., later revised to Joseph Hayes, and valued at £28. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 valued the property at £30, occupied and leased by David Smyth. Valuation Revisions (1896–1925) record occupiers including Richard Hamilton from 1896 and William Smith in 1878, when a caretaker's house and land was added. The property is described in secondary sources as "a plain mid-Georgian house, originally of the Smyth family, with two porters' lodges." The east lodge was cruciform on plan, built before 1832 for John Smyth but later demolished. The extant west lodge, described as unremarkable and probably built for T. H. Hamilton, was constructed sometime before 1907.

The property is set within private grounds with a stepped yard to the south-west bounded by rubble walling. An enclosed stableyard to the west consists of a two-storey pitched rubble outbuilding to the east; single-storey lean-to stables to the south and west with corrugated roofs; enclosed to the north by a wrought-iron gate. To the north-west, a large farmyard is enclosed to the north and east by single-storey rendered outbuildings with pitched corrugated roofs, with a two-storey rubble outbuilding to the west and a pair of later sheds with barrel roofs to the south. The site is bounded to farmland at the east by a rendered plinth wall surmounted by timber fence, with access through square rendered gate pillars supporting a farm gate to the south-east, and access from the road at the north through square rendered piers supporting a pair of iron gates. A single-storey gatelodge stands at this northern entrance.