Crevenagh Farm, 30 Great Northern Road, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, BT79 0FG

Crevenagh Farm is a detached three-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1820, facing west onto Great Northern Road near Omagh. It is a simple but solid house of late Georgian character, retaining many features typical of the style and period. The details throughout are plain, robust and unaltered, making it a good example of its type and unusual in its survival and completeness.

The rectangular-plan building is set within its own grounds to the west of Great Northern Road, with a single-storey lean-to wing to the south and outbuildings to the rear yard. The hipped natural slate roof has a catslide extending over a lower rear elevation, finished with half-round black clay ridge tiles. A pair of symmetrically-placed rendered chimneystacks rise from the roof, with replacement metal guttering and a mix of replacement metal and original cast-iron downpipes.

The walling is generally painted rough-cast render, with render quoins to the front elevation only. All windows are square-headed with painted stone sills and predominantly 6/6 timber sash windows.

The symmetrical three-bay front elevation features a central square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door and cast-iron rectangular overlight. To either side of the entrance is a tripartite timber sash window comprising a 6/6 sash flanked by two 2/2 sashes. These tripartite windows are of particular note as indicating a property of more substance than the common sort.

The north elevation has a single window to the left on both floors, with a further window opening to the first floor of the lower catslide projection. The rear (east) elevation has an irregular window composition: a single 6/6 to the centre at half-landing level, a 3/3 at first floor level to the left, a single-pane sash window with coloured margin lights to the right, and a 2/2 sash to the ground floor. Below the stair-hall window is a diminutive 4-pane timber casement window with a steel casement window to the left. A door opening with vertically-sheeted timber door sits beside the right-hand side window, while a lean-to rear entrance porch is placed to the left end of the elevation with a further timber plank door and a 6-pane timber casement window. The south elevation has a pair of 6/6 timber sash windows to the first floor with a steel casement window to the ground floor of the rear projection. A single-storey lean-to wing abuts this elevation, with a lean-to natural slate roof falling from a blind screen wall to the west. Its east elevation contains a 9-pane timber casement window and several timber plank doors.

The house is set on an elevated site, accessed by a long lane to the north which opens onto Great Northern Road through tall sandstone-clad piers and curved stone-clad walls. The rear yard comprises some two-storey rubble-stone outbuildings and several later structures with corrugated-iron roofs.

The property first appears, unmarked, on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. Additional buildings appear on the second and third edition maps of 1854 and 1906, where the house is captioned 'Creevenagh Cottage' and 'Creevenagh' respectively. The property appears in the Townland Valuation Records as the residence of Reverend Samuel Cuthbertson, valued at £3 18s 0d. In Griffith's Valuation it had risen substantially to £16 0s 0d, with the lessor recorded as the Honourable and Reverend A W Pomeroy. Several changes in residents followed, but the house continued to be leased from the Pomeroy family at approximately the same value. In 1883 it was sold for £500. In the early 1900s the property was held in fee by Robert Adams and then James Crammond. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs make cursory mention of Reverend Cuthbertson as a Presbyterian minister in the parish of Cappagh.