Lisboy House, Dryarch Road, Beragh, Omagh, BT79 0SQ

Lisboy House is a detached three-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1860, located on Dryarch Road near Beragh. The house is set within an unspoiled rural landscape with expansive gardens to the east enclosed by a river running south-west, and a traditional farmyard to the south. It is accessed from the road to the west over a road bridge with low, roughly coursed rubble drystone parapet walls and flat stone coping, with a parallel access to the farmyard at the north.

The main house is rectangular on plan facing south, with a two-bay single-storey section with attic-storey return. To the rear is a U-plan range of two-storey stone outbuildings forming a yard. Attached to the east of these outbuildings is a double-height stone and redbrick former horse training structure with a double-span barrel roof.

The main house has a hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and lead ridges, and a pair of rendered profiled chimneystacks with black clay pots and lead flashing. UPVC rainwater goods are fitted to boxed timber eaves. The return section has a gable-ended roof with a chimneystack and rainwater goods as per the main block, with a pair of flat-roofed dormer windows to the east pitch.

The walls are painted ruled-and-lined cement render with a scribed cement render plinth course and rusticated cement render quoins. Window openings are square-headed with architrave surrounds and keystones, painted stone sills, and replacement UPVC tripartite sliding sash windows. The symmetrical three-bay front elevation features a central square-headed door opening with architrave surround and keystone, containing a replacement timber panelled door flanked by multi-pane sidelights on painted stone sills. The west side elevation is blind. The three-bay rear elevation has a centrally positioned gable-ended return with windows lacking architrave surrounds, fitted with 6/6 UPVC sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows are located to the two dormers and to a pair of diminutive attic-storey openings to the gable. A single 6/6 replacement timber sash window is positioned to the east of the return. A rear entrance porch sits to the inner angle on the east side of the return with a hipped natural slate roof and vertically-sheeted hardwood door with single light, opening onto a raised patio area. The single-bay east elevation has a first-floor window opening as per the front elevation, with a UPVC conservatory to the ground floor.

The range of outbuildings to the rear consists of multi-bay single and two-storey structures of stone and redbrick, set at an irregular angle and forming a yard on a U-plan. To the northeast elevation (rear) is a large attached stone and redbrick structure, possibly formerly a walled yard, having a double-span barrel roof with wrought-iron tension members and cast-iron compression members supported on steel I-beams with corrugated-iron barrel roofs.

Historical records indicate that while the present house dates from around 1860, the outbuildings date from an earlier period. The house in its present form first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1906. However, buildings on the plot appear on the first edition map of 1833, and some of these appear to have survived as outbuildings to the present house. The previous building is listed in the Townland Valuation and in Griffith's Valuation as a house and three offices, valued at £4 and leased from the Earl of Belmore by John Buchanan. In 1862 the house passed to James Buchanan, with a marginal note reading "improved", and its value was raised from £5 10 shillings to £10. In 1883 the house passed to John James Gilmore.