Mourneview, 26 Liskey Road, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 8NP

Mourneview is a well-proportioned rural farmhouse of great architectural and historical interest, located on the east side of Liskey Road in Strabane. The building comprises two distinct phases of construction: a three-bay two-storey farmhouse built around 1830, with an earlier original farm dwelling of around 1800 attached to its rear. The survival of these two separate building campaigns adds considerably to the property's significance.

The main house, facing west, is rectangular on plan with a two-storey return to the rear. It is traditionally constructed with roughcast rendered walls and pitched natural slate roofs topped with blue and black clay ridge tiles. The smooth rendered corbelled gable chimneysstacks are finished with decorative octagonal clay pots. A brick corbelled eaves course supports cast-iron rainwater goods.

The principal west elevation features a central entrance door with an original spider-web fanlight, flanked by windows at ground floor and three windows at first floor. These are eight-over-eight timber sliding sashes at ground floor level, diminished to four-over-eight at first floor. Windows are fitted with projecting masonry cills. The north gable is blank, while the south gable is ruled-and-lined rendered and contains six-over-six timber sliding sash windows at both ground and first floors. The rear east elevation displays the join between the two phases: the main structure retains its eight-over-eight sashes at ground floor and six-over-six at first floor, with a two-storey original Georgian farmhouse of circa 1800 abutting to the left.

The rear return, built as the original farm dwelling, has a natural slate roof with blue and black clay ridge tiles and walls of lime-rendered random rubble. Its principal elevation faces north and contains an off-centre gabled entrance porch finished in lime-rendered red brick, with six-over-six timber sliding sashes to either side and a two-over-four sash to the left bay. The porch cheeks are blank. First floor windows are present to each bay. The east gable contains a timber-sheeted door at right and a single window at left at first floor level. The south elevation includes a single-storey flat-roofed extension of little architectural interest, but the exposed section retains a two-over-four timber sliding sash window with two windows at first floor.

Apart from a small flat-roofed rear extension, the external and internal detailing is largely intact. The building retains its original vernacular character enhanced by the more formal detailing of the main block, whose wider windows suggest its circa 1830 construction date.

The property occupies a rural farmyard setting to the east of Liskey Road, preserved within its original context. Several traditionally constructed early-nineteenth century stone-built outbuildings remain, along with a cast-iron hand pump located outside the front door of the original part, adding to the authenticity of the farmyard ensemble.

Historical records support this chronology. The return block is shown as an independent dwelling on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1832-33, while the main house first appears on the 1855 map. The Townland Valuation of 1820-1840 records the property as "dwelling and offices" valued at £6 3s 1d., occupied initially by Andrew Browne and later by Thomas Browne. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 records the property valued at £7 15s and notes it was leased from the Marquis of Abercorn, with the lessor later revised to the Duke of Abercorn following his elevation in 1868. Valuations were increased to £9 15s in 1876. An extension shown on the 1905 Ordnance Survey Map on the south elevation of the return has since been replaced by the modern extension now visible.