House, Clontivrin, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 6FR

Clontivrin is a handsome two-storey L-shaped house with stable yard, located at Clontivrin Townland near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. Dating from the early 20th century (1900–1919), it retains considerable architectural character and many original features.

The principal block is symmetrical across three bays with a hipped natural slate roof and three cement-rendered chimneys set perpendicular to the ridge at the party wall between each bay, with a third at the rear west end. The walls are painted and lime-rendered over a slightly advanced base course. Rainwater goods are half-round metal.

The east-facing principal elevation features a large projecting porch as its centrepiece. The porch has a shallow pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves supported on curved timber brackets. Its walls are painted and lined cement-rendered over a chamfered base course, with decorative dew-drop bargeboards and a pointed drop finial to the gable. The east face carries a double-leaf two-panelled door with decorative geometric glazing to the top panels, matching sidelights, and a decorative tripartite transom. Each cheek of the porch contains a blind semi-circular-headed niche. To either side of the porch is a one-over-two top-hung casement window. Above these are three side two-by-one side-hung casement windows (the centre window is four-by-one), all diminished in height. All windows throughout are painted timber casements with painted stone cills unless otherwise stated.

The south elevation, which is longer to accommodate a rear projecting section, is unpainted at its extreme left end. The ground floor contains three openings: a top-hung casement to the left and left of centre, and a large conservatory to the extreme right with a flat leaded roof. The conservatory is six top-hung casements wide and two deep, all sharing a continuous cill and detailed to match the house. The first floor has five openings including a small pivotal one-by-two window without a cill at the extreme left, two two-by-three side-hung casements, a two-by-one side-hung casement aligned above the central ground floor opening, and a third two-by-three window above the conservatory.

The rear elevation is partially abutted to the right of centre by the rear projecting section. The exposed part of the main block has a six-by-six sliding sash window to the ground floor at the central bay and a side-hung casement to the first floor. The projecting rear section has all details as the main house. Its rear gable is completely abutted by a two-storey outbuilding. On the inside (north) cheek, abutted to the left of centre, is a small three-quarter-height lean-to annexe with a monopitched natural slate roof. To its right is a semi-elliptical-headed coach-arch containing two tongue-and-groove-sheeted doors. The annexe's north face has a three-by-one pivotal window. The right cheek has a timber door with a rectangular boarded opening ahead. The right gable has a window to each floor at its centre, that to the first floor diminished in height. The first floor of the projecting section has a one-by-two pivot window to either side.

The rear outbuilding, which forms the east block of the stable yard and is incorporated into the house at first floor level, has a natural slate roof hipped to the south and gabled to the north, with two small brick chimneys. Walls are lime-rendered over rubble stone. The yard-facing elevation has a door opening to the right of centre with a two-by-three side-hung casement above. The north gable has a boarded window opening to the ground floor right and an infilled window opening to the first floor left. The rear elevation facing the house has three door openings to the ground floor (that to the right has a tongue-and-groove-sheeted door) and two sliding sash windows to the first floor. The south gable has a side-hung casement to the first floor.

The stable yard is completed by blocks to the south and west, all two-storey with pitched natural slate roofs and lime-rendered rubble stone walls. All openings in these blocks are tongue-and-groove-sheeted. The owner currently occupies the left-hand side of the south block.

The house is set back from the road on a prominent site, accessed by a curved driveway. The entrance is marked by a pair of interlocking wrought-iron gates with matching gate screen, all hung on square-in-section gate piers with a single carved panel to each side and pyramidal coping. The outer piers are narrower.

Historical records show a building on this site in the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. The 1839 First Valuation book described it as "an extremely handsome and commodious house" measuring 45 feet 6 inches by 24 feet by 12 feet, occupied by Henry Jackson in 1862 with a valuation of £26. By the 1860 Second Valuation, it was noted as a "very respectable stylish farmhouse suitable for a gentleman's residence; low upper storey" with reduced dimensions of 21 feet by 19 feet 6 inches. The present main block has a larger footprint than the documented earlier structure, indicating a substantial rebuild, possibly marked by the 1906 Valuation Revision. The earlier section probably survives at the rear.

The house, outbuildings, gates and gate screen are all listed. The property is privately owned and has been recorded as derelict.