24 Backfarm Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5QE

A detached, two-bay, single-storey vernacular house was built around 1850 on the south side of Backfarm Road, Omagh, County Tyrone. The house is of a direct-entry plan form and is rectangular, facing east. It includes a rubble stone catslide windbreaker porch to the east, and a bed outshot to the west. The roof is corrugated iron with metal ridge caps, and the chimneystacks are of random rubble basalt, rendered on the south side. The walls are random rubble with traces of lime render. The windows are square-headed, painted timber 2/2 sash windows with stone sills. The principal (east) elevation has the catslide windbreaker porch in the centre, flanked by a single window on each side; the window to the left is a replacement casement. The south gable is abutted by an outbuilding. The rear (west) elevation is blank, with the catslide bed outshot projecting off-centre. The north gable is also blank, showing a ghost mark where a gabled outbuilding, with a lower ridge, was recently demolished. A detached outbuilding is attached to the south; it has a square-headed entrance opening on its east elevation, a blank south gable, and a partly collapsed west elevation. The site is accessed via an earth drive, and is overgrown with numerous mature trees and shrubs to the south, southeast, southwest, and west. The house first appeared on the Ordnance Survey map of 1854. Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 describes a house, offices, and land valued at 15s, occupied by James McCusker and leased from Samuel Galbraith. Valuation revisions show no significant changes apart from revisions to the occupier's name.