Mourneview, 75 Melmount Road, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 9PX

Mourneview is a detached two-storey three-bay farmhouse built around 1900, located on the west side of Melmount Road just south of Strabane. The house is of limited architectural interest, as its historic character has been substantially degraded by modern additions and alterations.

The main house is rectangular on plan with large single-storey extensions added around 1990 to the front and side, and a kitchen extension dating to around 1970 at the rear. A side extension links to a two-storey outbuilding at the south. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with replacement brick chimneys at the gables, and has half-round aluminium rainwater goods. The walls are painted wetdash with a contrasting plinth. Windows are timber top-hung casements with painted concrete sills.

The principal elevation faces west and is symmetrical, with a modern flat-roofed sunroom extension to the left and central bays at ground floor. The south gable has a first-floor window and a ground-floor door accessed via a modern porch contained within the side extension. The rear elevation is centrally abutted by the kitchen extension and has windows to the ground floor left and to each bay at first floor. The north gable has a first-floor window.

The house is set back from the road and screened by trees, with a garden to the front (east) and farmyard to the rear (west). The garden is enclosed by a painted wetdash boundary wall, and a grassed drive is accessed from Melmount Road by timber gates. A wrought-iron gate provides access to the farmyard.

The farmyard setting retains some interest. To the south stands a two-storey L-shaped outbuilding with pitched corrugated asbestos roof and random rubble stone walls, lime-rendered to the rear and west elevation. Openings are brick-dressed and louvred, with timber-sheeted doors. To the west is a single-storey range with pitched asbestos roof, lime-rendered rubble stone walls, timber-sheeted doors, and timber casement windows. This outbuilding is a well-proportioned survivor indicating nineteenth-century origins of the site.

Historical records show buildings on the site from at least 1832–3 according to the first edition Ordnance Survey map, configured roughly as today with buildings to the north and west of the present house. These appear to have survived as outbuildings. The second edition map of 1855 shows a larger structure on the site of the present house, and by the third edition of 1905, the present house appears with projections to east and west. The fourth edition of 1951 shows it captioned "Mourne View".

The Townland Valuation records (1828–40) show the property occupied by William Hayes, comprising a dwelling and three outbuildings. The property was rebuilt between 1833 and the next valuation, with the original one-storey dwelling raised or rebuilt to two storeys and its value increased from £1 5s 5½d to £5. Griffith's Valuation (1856–64) further raised the value to £6. In 1906, William McCarter became occupier and owner in fee in 1907 under early twentieth-century land acquisition legislation. A marginal note in valuation records around 1893–1907 suggests a "new house here", though no change in valuation was recorded until the First General Northern Ireland Revaluation of 1933–57, when the value increased to £9 10s with £2 for outbuildings. At that time the house comprised a kitchen, scullery, two reception rooms, and four bedrooms, with no modern conveniences noted initially, though a later undated note indicates a bath and W.C. were present. Valuers' notes described good ground-floor rooms but noted the kitchen was large at the expense of a very narrow dining room, and upstairs rooms were low with no bath or natural light.