9 Mullawinny Road, Fintona, Co. Tyrone, BT78 2LX

A single storey, three-bay direct-entry house of whitened stone with a thatched roof, dating from the early 19th century. It is located about three and a half miles from Dromore, on Mullawinny Road, which travels westerly off the Fintona to Dromore/Omagh road.

The house faces south-east beside a narrow roadway that widens to form a forecourt area. The roof is thatched between a cement skew at the left (south-west) and a stone coping at the right (north-east). The corbelled chimneystacks are plastered and whitened, with one rising above the right-hand (north-east) gable serving the kitchen hearth and another for the adjoining room. There are no chimney pots. Rushes had covered the roof for a number of years before re-thatching.

The entrance door, of timber sheeting, is protected by a square-jambed windbreak porch finished smooth in plaster and whitened to match the house. The porch roof is of corrugated iron. The porch is flanked to the right (north-east) by one vertically sliding window and to the left (south-west) by two vertically sliding windows, all with sashes divided horizontally into two panes. The right-hand window has the topmost glazing bar missing; sash stops are splayed and the sill is of intermediate depth at the face. The left-hand openings lack sills; the one nearest the porch is without sash stops, while the other has moulded sash stops. The rear elevation has three windows: a modern timber window lighting the kitchen, and small plain-glazed windows in the rooms at the rear of the parlour. Roofspace accommodation is lighted by a metal-framed window on the right-hand gable, set without sill above the stable.

The building extends to the left (south-west) in two sections: first as a barn, then as a byre. The walls are of stone with whitened finish and roofs of corrugated iron. The byre has horizontal-shaped windows in both front and rear walls, the rear window being blocked with corrugated iron. The barn has a plastic skylight set into the front roof slope. Against the byre gable is a further annex of concrete block with lean-to corrugated iron roof, entered through a framed and corrugated iron door and lit by a small top-hung window. At the rear of the barn stands a concrete block structure with lean-to corrugated iron roof; only the upper part of its entrance door remains in place, and the back wall contains two foursquare metal-framed windows.

A stable of stone construction with brick dressings is attached to the right-hand (north-east) gable of the house and has a pitched corrugated iron roof. The timber-sheeted stable door has metal sheet added to the upper leaf and is flanked by a small foursquare timber window.

The building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833 but was not noted in the contemporary valuation. It is recorded in the second valuation of 1859 with occupant James Orr, immediate lessor Alexander Warnock, and a rateable value of £1. By 1992 the thatch was in fair condition but had deteriorated to poor at the front and very bad at the rear by 1994. The roof over the parlour and two bedrooms was re-thatched in 1996, with the entire roof re-thatched in 2001 by Gerry Agnew, using a layer of flax beneath a covering of wheat straw.