208 Gorticashel Road, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, BT79 7SB

Detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry dwelling, built around 1810, located on the north side of Gorticashel Road, Omagh. This is a survivor of the small vernacular building stock of rural Northern Ireland, though of a relatively common type and not among the best examples of a traditional rural dwelling.

The building has a direct-entry rectangular plan. The roof is natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles, and there is a single rubble stone gable chimneystack. Walls are roughly coursed rubble stone, with lime render at the west elevation. Windows are 2/2 timber sliding-sashes with stone heads and cills; most openings are now empty with only a few timber frames remaining.

The principal elevation faces west and contains a wind-break porch at the centre flanked by a window on each side. The wind-break porch is covered with natural slate and has a vertically sheeted timber entrance door. The left (north) gable is blank. The rear (east) elevation has an out-shot at the right; the exposed section has a single window opening at the left, while the out-shot itself is blank. The right (south) gable contains a single opening at the left (attic level).

The building is largely intact in plan form and detailing. It is located in a remote rural location and may be connected with a two-storey mill building to the south.

Historical records show the building on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The Townland Valuation records the property as part of a plot containing a dwelling house, office, corn mill, kiln and land, occupied by Patrick Donnelly; contemporary notes suggest the mill would let for ten guineas per annum, with a fair value of £7 independent of any tenant obligation to grind grain. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records the property as a corn mill, kiln and land valued at £8 10s, occupied by Cornelius McCrea and leased from William Hope. Three houses are associated with the plot, leased from McCrea, and the current building appears to be one of these, valued at 4 shillings. A marginal note observes that 'in six months of the year there is nothing done here, average working time of the remaining six months say 6 hours per day'. The mill's valuation increased to £12 by 1875, with the buildings on the plot thereafter valued together.