29 Laght Road,

A detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse built around 1900, located on the west side of Laght Road on an elevated rural farmyard site. The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey gabled porch to the east and an attached single-storey byre to the north.

The main house has walls of ruled-and-lined rendered cement with roughcast applied to the north elevation. The roof is pitched corrugated asbestos with red brick corbelled chimneys. Windows are timber-framed 2/2 sliding sashes with exposed sash boxes at ground floor and 1/1 at first floor; all have concrete sills. The principal elevation faces east and is centred by a smooth rendered porch containing a replacement timber glazed door, with single windows to left and right and three windows at first floor. The south elevation is blank. The west elevation is largely overgrown. The north elevation is pebbledash rendered and abutted at ground floor by a lime-rendered rubble byre with corrugated metal roof, itself abutted by a further rubble lean-to; the exposed first-floor section is blank.

Cast iron half-round gutters and round downpipes form the rainwater goods.

The site features a range of outbuildings of vernacular character, all with lime-rendered rubble walling and pitched corrugated iron roofs. These include a one-and-a-half-storey barn to the south abutted at the east by a single-storey rendered lean-to; a two-storey barn to the south-east with exposed rubble walling and fieldstone quoins, abutted at the north by a rubble lean-to with blocked first-floor openings; and a single-storey stable block to the north-west abutted at the west by a byre.

Historical records show buildings present on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The Townland Valuation of 1828–40 notes no houses in the townland were valued at five pounds a year. Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64 records the plot as two separate dwellings occupied by John Hamilton and William Hamilton Senior, leased from the Earl of Castlestuart, valued at £1 15 shillings and 15 shillings respectively, with the dividing line apparently running through the centre of what is now the main house, suggesting it may once have been two separate dwellings. A new office was added in 1870, increasing the value by 10 shillings. The properties remained with the Hamilton family until 1915 when George Watson became occupier of the main house. By 1933 the valuation had increased to £2 5 shillings with 10 shillings additional for outbuildings. The building retains traditional materials and detailing including timber sash windows, though some inappropriate works have been carried out.