164 Glenpark Road, Gortin, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT79 7SU

This is a detached, single-storey tin house built around 1930, located on the south side of Glenpark Road, Omagh. The house is rectangular, facing north, with a return to the west and a hipped, open porch set into the north-west angle. It has a pitched corrugated metal roof with metal ridge and hip caps, painted timber bargeboards, box eaves, a rendered chimneystack with cornice over the return ridge, and half-round painted cast-iron gutters. The walls are painted corrugated metal sheeting over a concrete foundational plinth. The windows are square-headed, painted timber casements. The principal (north) gable features a flat-headed, canted oriel of painted timber with a moulded cornice and sill supported on a single bracket. The east elevation has a single window at the left end, while the rear (south) gable is blank. The west elevation abuts the return gable (with a perpendicular ridge) to the right and a porch to the left; a square-headed, painted timber panel door is within the porch on the left end. The return gable has two windows, the right (rear) cheek has a square-headed, painted timber panel door to the centre and a window to the right, and the left cheek of the return is blank and abuts the porch. The porch is supported by squared, painted timber piers. The house sits within lawned grounds with mature trees along a rural road.

The building first appeared on the 1936-8 Ordnance Survey map. It was originally within the grounds of the former Lislap House, which was then used as a youth hostel. It is suggested that the building may have initially been constructed as a gate lodge, with records referencing it as early as 1914, although this is not definitive. Valuers’ records from 1933 include a plan and dimensions, and the house was then occupied by John Collins. The land surrounding the house was taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture for afforestation in 1937. Historical records indicate the building was noted as derelict at some point, though the specific date is not available.