Altamuskin Post Office, 177 Altamuskin Road, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 9JA

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, located to the west side of Altamuskin Road, Sixmilecross. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey windbreak off-centre at right. Roof is pitched natural slate, blue/black clay ridge tiles; three brick corbelled chimneystacks; timber eaveboards, u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls are ruled-and-lined rendered random rubble, smooth rendered to principal east elevation with shell and pebble insets. Windows are square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sashes with projecting masonry cills and decorative architraves which match rendering technique (Rear windows are replacement timber casements with projecting masonry cills). Principal elevation faces east and contains single-storey windbreak porch off-centre at left; single window at right, two windows at left, first floor window fenestration identical to that at ground floor. Over the entrance porch is a wall plaque which reads; 'ALTAMUSKIN/ POST OFFICE'. Left of the ground floor windows a cast-metal painted post box is set into the wall. Entrance porch comprises central replacement timber door at south accessed by single masonry step; left and right cheeks are blank. Left (south) gable is blank. Rear (west) elevation contains timber sheeted entrance door at right, three windows at left; three windows at first floor. Right (north) gable is blank. Setting:- The site is bounded on the road side by random rubble walling; house accessed via four stone steps from road edge to cobbled path which leads to the principal entrance. Adjacent to the main house/post office at north and south are random rubble outbuildings, each aligned east-west with corrugated metal sheeted roofs. Directly opposite on the east site of Altamuskin road is a two-storey random rubble outbuilding also with corrugated metal sheeted roof and external stone steps. All the outbuildings appear to date from the time of the earlier house, c.1830. An original cast-metal painted telephone kiosk is located east of the post office inside the boundary wall. Roof: Natural Slate Walling: Pebble dash/ rendered Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron