Woodend Cottage, 42 Woodend Road, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0BP

The houset faces north and is situated between the old road to Dunnamanagh and the new stretch of road from Strabane to Londonderry about two miles from Strabane. The roads are joined on the Strabane side by the short length of Spruce Road A winding drive descends into the property from the entrance on the old or upper road. A non-vernacular house with a formal plan. The house is one and a half storey with a roughcast and whitened finish and the roof is thatched between cement skews. Each gable rises to a chimneystack, that to the left (west) has one decorative pot and that to the right (east) has two similar pots. A further stack is set longitudinally above the dining room fireplace and has two pots. All pots have corbelled cappings and are fitted with spark arresters The entrance is recessed in a gabled projecting porch with natural slate roof and plain bargeboard. At each side of the porch there is a vertically sliding window with plain sashes. Beyond these on either side there are canted bays with vertically sliding windows plain sashed at the sides and with vertical division in the central light. The single openings have narrow sills and the bays have sills of traditional depths. All of the sashes have small stops. At the rear (south) a two-storey addition has a natural slate roof hipped where it joins the main building and with a rooflight set into the inner slope. The opposite gable on the south side is finished with a decorative bargeboard. A chimney on this gable is basically similar to those on the main house and has a single pot with spark arrester. A further single storey flat roofed kitchen block in the south-west re-entrant angle has modern fenestration and there is a pair of plain sashed windows on the east side of the two-storey block. The rear of the main house is lighted by a 6/6 vertically sliding window and a plain sashed vertically sliding window to the west of the extensions. At the right (east) of the extensions there is a vertically sliding window with plain sashes on the main wall face