27 Fireagh Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1SG

27 Fireagh Road, Omagh

A detached symmetrical three-bay two-storey house built around 1920, located on the west side of Fireagh Road, Omagh. The building is of late date, poorly proportioned, of a common type and is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing east, with a single-storey entrance porch to the west and a single-storey lean-to extension to the south gable. The roof is hipped natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles. Two brick corbelled party-wall chimneystacks rise through the roof, with corbelled eaves supporting replacement uPVC box-profile rainwater goods. The walls are roughcast rendered with stepped quoins at the east elevation.

Windows are square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sashes with exposed boxes and projecting stone cills. The east-facing windows are camber-headed with a continuous cill course at first floor level. The principal elevation faces east and contains a central glazed timber panelled entrance door with a camber-headed fanlight over and sidelights. Flanking paired windows sit at each side with a continuous cill. Five windows occupy the first floor, with paired windows at left and right and a single window at the centre. The entrance door is accessed by a single masonry step.

The south elevation is partially abutted by a single-storey mono-pitch extension on the left; the exposed section contains two first-floor windows. The rear west elevation is abutted by a single-storey pitched extension on the left; the exposed section contains three windows on the ground floor and four at first floor. The north elevation is blank.

The west single-storey pitched extension is detailed as the main house, with a square-headed uPVC window in the west gable. The right cheek contains a replacement timber door accessed by three masonry steps and a ramp with cast-metal handrail. The south mono-pitch extension's west elevation is abutted by a re-entrant angle and contains a single timber casement window in a projecting gable. The exposed section at the right is blank.

The house is accessed by a lane from the north and south. Adjacent to the north is an outbuilding built around 1830, traditionally constructed with lime-rendered random rubble walling, brick surrounds and timber-sheeted doors. Stone steps to the east gable access a loft door at first floor level. A further single-storey outbuilding similarly detailed sits to the west. A pump is located to the west of the house.

Historical Background

The building first appears on the fourth edition Ordnance Survey map of 1937–8, although buildings have occupied the plot since at least the first edition of 1833. Griffith's Valuation records show the earlier buildings on the plot were occupied by Robert White and leased from Alexander G. Stuart Esq, with a property valuation of £2 5s. Valuation Revisions record a change in occupier to Mary White in 1869, and in 1874 the valuation increased to £3 10s due to the construction of new outbuildings.

The present house dates stylistically to around 1920, though its construction is not clearly shown in records until 1933, when the valuation was raised to £10. At that time the occupier was Robert White in fee. The house comprised a kitchen, scullery and three rooms downstairs with five bedrooms upstairs, and was lit by oil lamps. The valuer described it as a 'good house, roughcast exterior finish, good interior, no mod con'.