House south of, Gillygooly Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5QA

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built circa 1840, located west of the road on the south side of Gillygooly Road near Omagh, County Tyrone.

The building has a rectangular plan with a small wind-break porch to the east and a lean-to extension at the west added circa 1920. An attached lean-to extension extends to the north. The walls are rubble construction, lime-rendered, though the render has largely fallen away. The roof is pitched corrugated metal; the chimneys are rubble with sandstone coping, partially replaced with concrete. The porch has a natural slate roof.

The principal elevation faces east. The left bay contains a single window, the central bay contains an original timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash window with exposed sash box flanked on the right by the wind-break porch, which contains an original vertically-sheeted timber entrance door. The right bay contains a single window. The windows are replacement timber casements with concrete sills. The south gable is blank. The west elevation is abutted at its centre by a lean-to containing two windows; the exposed section to the left contains a single window and the exposed section to the right contains a pair of windows. The north gable is blank and is abutted by a lean-to containing a square-headed opening to the east (door missing) accessed by four stone steps.

The building is set on an elevated site accessed via a lane at the east, with remains of rubble walling to the south (earlier date). The site is bounded to other sides by hedging and wire fencing. A recent gabled roughcast garage stands directly to the north.

A building on the site is first shown on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records a house, offices and land valued at £1. The occupier is William Gibson and the property is leased from Sir James M Strange. Valuation Revisions record a change of occupier to Robert Gibson in 1888, with no changes of significance noted thereafter. The dwelling is distinctly vernacular in style with simple construction and materials, built in stone with a corrugated pitched roof, which was probably thatched originally. The lean-to extension was likely added circa 1920, as it does not appear until the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1936–7.