17 Cavan Road, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone, BT81 7TP

Detached house at 17 Cavan Road, Castlederg, built circa 1730. A multi-bay single-storey structure over basement with attic storey, rectangular on plan and facing east. The building sits within its own grounds on the northeast side of Cavan Road, positioned perpendicular to the road.

The walls are painted pebbledash render over brick, with a smooth rendered plinth course and smooth rendered rusticated quoins. The roof is pitched with artificial slate and black clay ridge tiles, supported on a rendered brick eaves course. Three replacement grey brick chimneystacks and replacement metal guttering with wrought-iron and steel brackets are present. Cast-iron downpipes are fitted in places.

The southeast front elevation is six windows wide with a central square-headed door opening accessed by four large stone steps. Window openings throughout are square-headed with smooth rendered surrounds, concrete sills, and replacement timber casement windows. The doorcase was inserted circa 1930 and comprises a raised-and-fielded four-panelled timber door with Art Nouveau brass furniture and a rectangular overlight with margin lights. The doorcase sits within a painted carved stone surround with bull-nosed reveals.

Three square-headed openings to the basement level are present on the front elevation. Two have redbrick sills at ground level and are now boarded up. A larger opening at the north end has an angled head with three rough-hewn stone steps descending to a replacement vertically-sheeted timber door.

The gabled south side elevation has a pair of windows to ground floor level, a further pair to attic-storey level, and a single opening to the basement with a timber door. A single-storey rubblestone outbuilding is abutted flush to the south gable, with pebbledash render to the right bay only. This outbuilding contains a landscape window opening with timber casement window and concrete sill.

The rear elevation has irregularly placed window openings to ground floor and eaves level, all with timber casement windows and concrete sills. The north elevation of the attached outbuilding contains a landscape window opening and a lean-to porch with window and door openings; the door is hardwood glazed. The north side gable has a pair of small window openings at attic level, now boarded up. Remnants of a rubblestone lean-to structure have left the rubblestone walling exposed at ground floor level, with pebbledash render above.

A gravel drive encircles the front and side elevations and opens onto a short front avenue to the south, which leads to the road via a pair of large pebbledash rendered piers with wrought-iron gates. The southern part of the site contains mature trees enclosed by a dry-stone wall fronting the road. A concrete paved drive leads past the attached outbuilding into a gravel rear yard.

An attached outbuilding to the rear incorporates the kitchen and has a pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and no rainwater goods. An L-plan range of lofted single-storey rubblestone outbuildings with replacement sheeted steel roofs and timber plank doors forms the rear yard enclosure.