House at 15 Ardcame Road, Strabane, Co Tyrone BT82 0LT

House at 15 Ardcame Road, Strabane

At the time of survey in July 2009, this property comprised a clachan of single-storey buildings and outbuildings with a two-storey barn, all built around 1830. The complex was divided into two separate groups located on either side of Ardcame Road at its junction with Carrickatane Road. Those on the south side of the road comprised four separate buildings, all located within the grounds of 15 Ardcame Road, a large detached residence built around 1930. The buildings to the north side were separately grouped. By October 2012, the north gable wall and chimney of the main house had been demolished and the wall rebuilt in concrete block without reconstruction of the chimney, then re-rendered in lime and lime-washed. Due to the extent of this alteration, the property was designated Record Only.

The main house was a detached four-bay single-storey structure built around 1830. It was rectangular on plan, facing east, and constructed of lime-rendered rubble stone with lime-wash finish. The pitched roof was of corrugated iron, possibly concealing an original thatch roof beneath. Two yellow brick chimneystacks remained. The east-facing front elevation had four bays with square-headed window openings, tooled stone sills, and 2/2 timber sash windows with semi-exposed sash boxes. The centre-right bay contained a square-headed door opening with an original four-panelled timber door featuring bolection mouldings and a rectangular overlight with geometric glazing. The rear west elevation displayed an asymmetric arrangement of window and door openings with an outshot featuring a curved wall to the north and a corresponding catslide corrugated iron roof. The north gable was blank.

Building 1, located to the north and on the same axis as the house, was a detached multi-bay single-storey outbuilding with a pitched natural slate roof fitted with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods on iron drive-through brackets. The lime-washed rubble stone walling continued a further bay to the north with a pitched corrugated iron roof. The front east elevation held a single corrugated iron door on an iron sliding mechanism and a further square-headed window opening. The rear west elevation contained a door opening, a window opening, and some wrought-iron gates.

Building 2, set perpendicular to Building 1, was a two-bay single-storey rubble stone former workshop, rectangular on plan facing south with an attached lean-to. It had a pitched corrugated asbestos roof with cement flaunching to gables and a corrugated iron roof to the lean-to. The south front elevation contained a pair of square-headed door openings with timber lintels and tongue-and-groove timber doors, with a further opening above the right door to eaves level. The east gable was abutted by the lean-to structure and featured a series of small owl-holes to the apex. The lean-to exhibited a large corrugated iron door to the south and an elliptical-headed stone arch to the north, half-blocked up in stone with a single sheeted timber door.

Building 3, located to the north of the rest of the group, was a multi-bay single-storey stone building running along Ardcame Road with a single-pitched corrugated iron roof. It was constructed of rough-coursed rubble stone walling with a series of segmental-headed door openings formed in redbrick.

The group occupied a rural setting to the south of Ardcame Road, contained within the curtilage of the large early twentieth-century house to the west. A further group of traditional buildings lay on the north side of Ardcame Road, contributing to the setting of the vernacular house and farm complex.