58 Ganvaghan Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7SY

A detached three-bay two-storey house built around 1870, located on the south side of Ganvaghan Road near Castlederg. The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey porch to the north.

The house retains much of its original external fabric. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with blue and black ridge tiles and raised cement verges, topped with a single roughcast chimney bearing clay pots. The walls are roughcast. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 6/6 sliding sashes with stone sills.

The principal elevation faces north, with window openings in each of the three bays at both ground and first floors. At ground floor centre, the elevation is interrupted by a flat-roofed entrance porch containing a single window opening (now blocked). The east elevation of the porch holds a replacement timber-sheeted door with a transom light above, while the west elevation contains a single window. The east gable is blank, with render having partially fallen away to reveal rubble and brick walling beneath. The south elevation features, at ground floor, a vertically-sheeted timber door flanked on the right by a 3/6 sliding sash and a 1/1 sliding sash window with exposed sash boxes. The first floor south elevation contains three 2/2 sliding sash windows, also with exposed sash boxes. The west gable is blank.

The house is set within private grounds bounded to the west by a river. The original access from the road runs north along an avenue (now overgrown) through a pair of wrought-iron gates supported on rendered piers within hedging. A replacement drive to the north-east provides access to a farmyard at the rear. A single-storey pitched outbuilding stands to the north-east with a corrugated metal roof and lime-rendered rubble walls. A concrete farmyard to the south is bounded to the west and south by recent farm sheds.

Gutters and downpipes are cast iron, comprising half-round gutters and round downpipes.

Internally, the building has been partially stripped of detailing, although some woodwork remains. A 1933 valuation records the property as a house and office comprising a kitchen, one room, one small room and porch, four bedrooms and a store, with clean water located 250 yards away.

Documentary evidence shows buildings present on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, though these do not appear to have survived. An outbuilding present on the second edition map of 1853 appears to have survived as the structure now standing to the north-east. The present house does not appear on the map until the third edition of 1905, though annual revision records indicate a new house was built in 1870 under the occupation of Samuel Scott. Prior to this, James Scott occupied a house, office and land leased from Sir James M. Stronge, Baronet. The property remained with the Scott family; Thomas Scott Junior became owner in fee in 1913 under early twentieth-century land purchase legislation. By 1933, Joseph Graham held the property and let it rent-free to his relative Annabella Knox.

The house is recorded only. Although of historical interest, its poor condition has resulted in degradation of the historic fabric and detailing, and it does not meet the criteria for listing.