Rocklow, 14 Beltany Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5NA

Rocklow is a detached three-bay two-storey former manse built around 1860, located on the south side of Beltany Road in Omagh. The house is rectangular on plan with a projecting bay and porch to a re-entrant angle to the north, and a short return to the south.

The roof is hipped natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles, overhanging deep eaves with uPVC fascia, and roughcast chimneys with clay pots. The walls are roughcast rendered with painted sandstone quoins over a smooth projecting plinth. Windows are square-headed timber framed 1/1 sliding sash in chamfered sandstone surrounds with painted masonry sills, though some have been replaced with uPVC casements and 2/2 sliding sash windows.

The principal elevation faces north. The projecting left bay is abutted at ground floor by a canted bay containing a dipartite window with windows to each cheek, and a tripartite window at first floor. An ordnance survey crow's foot mark appears on the quoin. The central bay is abutted at ground floor by a smooth rendered porch containing a square-headed timber-sheeted entrance door with sidelights and transom light, surmounted by a dipartite window at first floor. The right bay contains a dipartite window at each floor. The east elevation contains uPVC casement and 2/2 sliding sash windows at ground floor and two 2/2 sliding sash windows at first floor. The south elevation is abutted at centre by a return, with uPVC casement windows to exposed sections. The return contains an original timber-sheeted door to centre, flanked at each floor by uPVC casement windows, one of which at first floor left contains leaded stained glass. The west elevation contains 2/2 and 1/1 sliding sash windows at ground floor and two 3/6 sliding sash windows at first floor.

The house is set within mature gardens, accessed from the road to the east through a pair of cast-iron gates supported on rusticated square piers in an alcove entrance with balustraded walling. The boundaries are marked by fence and hedging. To the south, a rear yard is accessed through a pair of square piers in roughcast walling, enclosed to the south by a one-and-a-half-storey hipped roughcast outbuilding and to the west by a single-storey flat-roofed garage.

The house was built as a manse and first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1905–6, captioned "Rocklow", with two outbuildings to the southwest and a third, now demolished, to the south. Earlier editions show earlier buildings to the southeast of the present site. The 1973–4 Ordnance Survey map shows a new manse to the north of Rocklow.

According to Griffith's Valuation (1856–64), the previous property on the site was described as "house, office and land" occupied by Reverend Josiah Mitchell, leased from Claude Houston, with buildings valued at £3. However, the printed Griffith's Valuation also lists a "house in progress" on the plot. This new house is listed in Annual Revisions as the home of Reverend Josias Mitchell, valued at £13 15s, leased from Charlotte Houston. A history of the congregation notes that in 1863 a specification was drawn up to replace the outbuildings from the previous building. A slated two-storey barn was to be constructed, with the contractor instructed to take down the old buildings carefully and reuse as many stones and bricks as possible.

Various ministers occupied the house: Reverend Thomas Hamill (1881), Reverend J. A. Campbell (undated), Reverend Robert Wallace (undated), and Reverend W. H. Morrow (1921). Changes of lessor occurred periodically, but Reverend Morrow became the occupier in fee in 1922. After 1934 the house continued to be occupied by ministers, with the value raised to £35. The house comprises a drawing room, dining room, kitchen, pantry, scullery, study, three bedrooms, a boxroom, maid's room, and a bath and WC. Electricity was added at an undated later change. A valuation note from 1935 records the house as a manse belonging to Trinity Presbyterian Church, describing it as "a very desirable type of house in good repair and well situated" with main rooms of comfortable size and design, a bath with hot and cold water, but no modern lighting and sparse water supply.

The manse was sold in 1970 and a new manse was built on an adjoining site. The house retains much of its original character and has local interest, though it is of relatively late date and not among the best examples of its type.