House, High Street, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8JD

This is a two-storey, three-bay house situated on the east side of High Street in Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. The building’s construction is dated between 1840 and 1859.

The house has a hipped roof covered in artificial slate, with two brick chimneys perpendicular to the ridge, one between each bay. Overhanging eaves feature modern bargeboards, and plastic rainwater goods are fitted. The walls are pebble-dashed over a smooth, rendered, and painted basecourse. The main facade, which faces west, has been clad in artificial stone. A modern, single-storey brick porch with a pitched artificial slate roof and matching bargeboards is centrally positioned. The porch has circular fixed uPVC windows on either side, and a modern uPVC entrance door with sidelights, recessed behind a semicircular-headed opening with a tiled threshold. Ground floor and first floor windows are uPVC casements with concrete cills, with one window in each bay. The left and right gables are blank.

The rear elevation is largely obscured by a two-storey return, similarly detailed. A single-storey addition with a monopitched artificial slate roof is attached to the north face of the return, with two windows above at first floor. The rear gable of the addition has a window on the ground floor to the right. The south face of the return has a ground floor window to the right and two first floor windows.

The front of the site is enclosed by a modern balustraded wall with ball-topped gate piers.

The building was not shown on the 1834 Valuation town map but appears on the 1857 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map as a Police Barracks, and as a Constabulary Barracks on the 1907 edition. The 1860 Valuation records describe the building as measuring 33 feet by 18 feet, with two storeys, a 6-foot square, one-storey porch, and a 18-foot by 21-foot, two-storey return.