House, 6 Broghan Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5PF

Detached three-bay two-storey former direct-entry vernacular dwelling at 6 Broghan Road, Glasmullagh, Omagh, originally built as a two-bay house around 1820. The building is located on the west side of Broghan Road in a remote rural setting, positioned at the edge of a modern farmyard and accessed via a lane from the road through a modern steel gate. The property is now in poor repair.

The house features a direct-entry rectangular plan with a later single-storey gabled porch added to the north elevation around 1860. A third bay was added to the west around the same time. The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles (replacement slate covers the west bay addition). Stone verges are raised and chimneys are corbelled roughcast. The walls are roughcast lime rendered, though this has partially fallen away, and brick corbelled eaves are present. All windows are timber framed with sandstone sills: six-over-six sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes on the principal elevation, with three-over-six examples at first floor level. A single two-over-two sliding sash window is divided horizontally at ground floor level on the east gable.

The principal elevation faces south and contains a single window at each floor to each bay. The central bay holds the entrance at the right of the windows, consisting of a door opening surmounted by a transom light, though the door itself is now missing. The west gable displays a single window opening at first floor left; at ground floor a section of exposed rubble to the centre indicates an attached lean-to outbuilding once existed here. The north elevation shows the left bay with single window openings at each floor; at ground floor a wrought-iron railing remains within the window opening, the window itself missing. The central bay is abutted at its left by the porch, with a single window to the right, and the right bay contains a ground floor window opening (since divided by internal walling) surmounted by a single first floor window. The porch contains a small window and a vertically sheeted timber entrance door on its east elevation.

The building retains many external and internal features characteristic of early 19th-century vernacular architecture, though more recent alterations have resulted in some loss of character. The west bay has been subdivided, though the date of this work is not recorded. Insufficient fabric survives to merit statutory listing, and better examples of comparable buildings are already listed elsewhere.

Historical records show the house on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833 without the porch or west projection. By the 1854 map, buildings opposite the main elevation and a long rectangular outbuilding to the west, orientated north-west to south-east, are recorded. The 1905 Ordnance Survey map was the first to show the porch on the main house. Townland Valuation records name William Rodgers as occupier, with a valuation of £4 7 shillings. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 lists the same occupier with a slightly increased valuation of £4 10 shillings, perhaps corresponding to the addition of the porch. Valuation Revisions record the addition of a house to the site in 1867, occupied by David Rodgers and leased from Reverend Robert Hamilton. The occupier of the main house is revised to Mary Rodgers in 1880, and a 'Cottier's house' valued at £0 10 shillings, noted as having no garden attached, was added to the site in 1881. A well is marked to the south of the house on the first edition map.

The building demonstrates how vernacular architecture in the area was adapted to meet the changing needs of rural life, though its poor current condition and the cumulative effect of alterations limit its heritage significance.