9 Barleyhill Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7LL

A detached three-bay two-storey direct-entry house built around 1820, located on the east side of Barleyhill Road in the townland of Kilclean. The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey flat-roofed porch to the west and an attached single-bay two-storey wing at the north, which is partially collapsed. Outbuildings are attached to the south.

The roof is pitched natural slate with rendered red brick chimneys, one of which has collapsed. The walls are lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 3/6 sliding sashes at ground floor and 6/6 at first floor, all supported by timber lintels and fitted with sandstone sills.

The principal elevation faces west and is abutted at its centre by a wind-break porch with a concrete roof and missing door, with window openings to each of the three bays at both floors. The north elevation is abutted by the north wing and contains an exposed rubble face with a projecting chimney-breast. The south elevation is abutted by a one-and-a-half-storey pitched outbuilding with roughcast walls and corrugated metal roof, and further abutted by a single-storey stableblock with hipped natural slate roof. The east elevation is exposed rubble and contains a projecting chimney-breast. The east elevation also contains four window openings at each floor; two at ground floor left have been widened and are partially collapsed. There is also a single casement window and square-headed door opening at ground floor surmounted by a single casement at first floor.

The site comprises a rural farmyard accessed from the road at the west through a pair of wrought-iron gates supported on rendered brick piers in rubble walling. To the south stands a one-and-a-half-storey mill building with pitched corrugated metal roof and rubble walls, the east elevation rebuilt in concrete blocks, with the remains of a cast-iron mill-wheel to the west elevation. To the south-west is a ruin of a two-storey barn with exposed rubble walls and fieldstone quoins, featuring a segmental-headed carriage-arch with steps to the east providing access to the first floor. To the north, a further yard contains a two-storey lime-rendered stable-block with pitched natural slate roof and steps at the west providing access to the first floor, and a single-storey barn abutted at the east by a small byre, both with pitched corrugated metal roofs and exposed rubble walls with fieldstone quoins. Steel half-round gutters and round downpipes are present, with cast-iron rainwater goods to the east.

The interior retains a masonry wall-hearth to the kitchen, an important element within a house of this type.

Historical records indicate that the site originally comprised two separate dwellings. The Townland Valuation of 1828-40 lists the occupiers as Thomas McFarland and William Knox, with their houses valued at £4.4s.1d and £4.0s.8d respectively. A note regarding Knox's house states it was "Dwelling house part occupied by old Knox as a freedom". In Griffith's Valuation of 1859, both houses are listed under the lessor Sir Robert Ferguson Baronet, valued at £5 for McFarland's house to the south and £1.10s for Knox's house to the north. By 1862 William Knox had become the lessor of both houses. A fieldbook entry dated 1864-79 records a mill within McFarland's plot, with the value consequently raised to £7. Knox's buildings were raised in value in 1872 to £3, with a marginal note reading "+offs". In 1891 the Knox buildings were again raised in value to £5.10s, with a note recording "house raised and slated". The 1933 valuation lists the McFarland house as a house, offices, mill and land, though the reference to mill was later deleted without dated notation. The valuation describes the house as consisting of a kitchen, three rooms, pantry, store room, and three bedrooms with a further store room upstairs, with a note that the house was occupied rent-free by the brother of the owner and that clean water was close by. The house is constructed of rubble masonry and slated. The house of Mrs Sidney Knox is described as comprising a porch, kitchen, three rooms, pantry, four bedrooms and two unceiled attic bedrooms, also of rubble masonry and slated. It was initially valued at £3.10s, later amended to £7.15s with £2 for outbuildings.

The building has suffered loss of original fabric through deterioration. Although of interest as a vernacular farmhouse, it does not meet the criteria for listing and is recorded as derelict.