27 Segully Road, Drumquin, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 4RD

27 Segully Road, Drumquin is an attached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling built around 1820, sited on the north side of Segully Road in a remote rural setting. The building retains significant architectural and historical interest as an increasingly rare example of traditional rural construction from the early nineteenth century.

The house is rectangular in plan, aligned east-west, with a small windbreak porch positioned off-centre to the left of the north-facing principal elevation. Single-storey outbuildings abut the east and west gable walls, with a further single-storey outbuilding constructed around 1860 positioned to the north. The building is accessed via a lane to the east.

Externally, the structure remains largely intact in terms of its traditional massing and proportion. The walls are lime-washed roughly coursed rubble with patches of lime render in places. The roof is pitched and covered with corrugated metal sheeting with flat stone verges. Evidence suggests the roof has been raised and may originally have been thatched. Roughly coursed rubble gable chimneys, which appear to be later additions, rise from the roof line, and timber eaves boarding is present.

The principal north elevation features a small windbreak porch off-centre at the left, with a window opening to each side; the left window is diminished in size. Windows throughout are 6/6 timber sliding sashes with exposed boxes and stone cills. The east gable is abutted by a slightly higher single-storey outbuilding. The rear south elevation exhibits exposed random rubble walling with an out-shot at the right. An exposed section at the left contains paired 2/2 timber sliding sash windows, with a single 2/2 window positioned at the right. The west gable is abutted by a lower single-storey outbuilding with a single window at loft level, now partially enclosed by the roof structure of the adjoining return. The east and west returns are detailed similarly to the house, with the east return north elevation featuring a central opening with windows to each side, abutted by a single-storey random rubble outbuilding. The west return north elevation contains a central timber-panelled door, a timber-sheeted door at the left, and a metal casement at the right.

Internally, the house contains original timber-sheeted walls, ceiling, and doors. An original brick open fire remains in the principal room. The interior has been partially surveyed and demonstrates the quality and survival of traditional construction methods.

Historically, the building appears to have been originally thatched. It is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The third edition map of 1905 records the outbuilding to the north. The property cannot be identified with certainty in the Townland Valuation of 1828–40, but appears in Griffith's Valuation as a house, offices and land valued at 15 shillings and occupied by Francis McNabb. The lessor was the Earl of Castlestuart. In the fieldbook dated 1864–79 the valuation rose to £1 and the property passed to the Gormley family. By 1917 the property was held 'in fee' by the occupiers, indicating owner occupation rather than tenancy.