106 Tattyreagh Road, Fintona, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 2HY

Detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey house built around 1830 and raised and extended around 1900, located on the east side of Tattyreagh Road near Fintona. The building retains many original features and preserves its original form and layout, including a byre at the south end. The wider right bay extends further to the rear. The site includes attached outbuildings and farmyard remains of some interest, though development and changes to the building have compromised its character, and it is not among the best examples of this building type.

The rectangular plan incorporates a byre at ground floor in the right bay. A one-and-a-half-storey return adjoins the house at the west, and a single-storey wind-break porch is positioned at the east.

The roof is pitched natural slate with crested clay ridge tiles. Three red brick chimneystacks feature cogged corbelled courses. Deep overhanging eaves are supported by decorative timber bargeboards and timber eaves board, from which original u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods are hung. Walls are of rubble construction, partially lime-rendered with exposed sections of rubble and brick, and stepped smooth rendered quoins.

Windows are camber-headed timber-framed 2/2 horizontally divided sliding sashes set in smooth rendered and lugged architraves with projecting stone cills.

The principal elevation faces west. The left bay contains a single window at ground floor. The central bay is abutted at the left by the one-and-a-half-storey return, with windows at each floor to the right, the first floor window topped by a gablet. The third bay at right, containing the byre at ground floor and living accommodation at first floor, has two windows at ground floor and a single window at first floor left with gablet over.

The left (north) gable is abutted at ground floor by an L-plan rubble outbuilding with corrugated metal sheeting and pitched roof. The exposed section contains two first floor windows.

The rear (east) elevation has a projecting left bay containing two vertically sheeted timber doors and a single window at left with visible stone head. A single wall-head dormer appears at right at first floor. Two bays to the right are abutted at centre by the single-storey wind-break porch flanked by windows on each side; a single first floor window with gablet over is positioned at left. The wind-break porch contains a vertically sheeted timber door and appears to have been raised with the addition of red brick walling to eaves level. The left and right cheeks are blank.

The right (south) gable is abutted at ground floor by an L-plan range of traditionally constructed outbuildings. The exposed section contains a single first floor window at left.

The one-and-a-half-storey return is detailed as the main house. Its west gable contains a principal four-panelled entrance door with round-arched-headed fanlight over, set within a smooth rendered lugged architrave, a first floor window, and windows at ground floor on the left and right cheeks.

The house is accessed from a lane at the west, which gives access to the rear where a further outbuilding at east forms an informally enclosed yard. Additional farm buildings are located at the south.

Documentary evidence shows buildings on the plot from the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The present building appears to be a modification, dating from the late nineteenth century or early twentieth century, of the original vernacular structure. Brick detailing to the rear suggests a possible first storey addition. The plot is recorded in Griffith's Valuation as occupied by the Houston family, leased from the Kellys, and valued at £1 5 shillings. Charles Patterson became the occupier in 1901; by 1922 the value had risen to £8. The character of the detailing on the house suggests that modification had occurred sometime before this date.