40 Main Street, Carrickmore, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 9AY

An attached two-storey house built around 1830, located on the south side of Main Street in Carrickmore. The building is rectangular on plan with a single-storey lean-to extension at the south-west.

The building retains its original form, proportions and materials with no alterations or modernisation, making it an increasingly rare example of urban vernacular architecture of this period.

The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles and a lime-rendered chimney. Walls are lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash, all with painted sandstone sills. The principal elevation faces north-east and features a 6/6 sliding sash window at ground floor left with a window above at first floor level; a replacement square-headed timber panelled entrance door is positioned at right. The south-east elevation is abutted by the adjacent property at 42 Main Street. The south-west elevation contains a replacement timber sheeted entrance door at left with two windows at first floor above, and is abutted by the lean-to at right. The north-west elevation is abutted by the neighbouring property.

The house is directly accessed from the street to the north, with a small yard to the south enclosed to the rear by hedging.

Historical records show buildings on this site from the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The Townland Valuation (1828-40) indicates a building may have stood here, though positive identification is difficult. The current building is first clearly identifiable in Griffith's Valuation (1856-64) as a house with offices, yard and garden, initially valued at £2 13 shillings, later revised to £3 5 shillings. Charles Rafferty leased it from Sir John Stewart Baronet. By 1908, Reverend Gormill C.C. had become the occupier with Charles Rafferty as lessor; valuation notes from that year comment that the valuation was low and the property had received no improvements for years. In 1929 James Brooks was the occupier. By 1934, the house comprised a kitchen and two rooms downstairs and three rooms upstairs. At a later date Margaret Jane Rafferty became the occupier in fee.