Riverland House, 7 Letfern Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1QE

Riverland House is a detached three-bay three-storey Georgian house built around 1780, located on the south side of Letfern Road near Omagh. It is a substantial example of a good-quality minor gentleman's residence of relatively early date, surviving largely in original condition.

The house is rectangular on plan with a three-storey return to the north-east. It is plainly detailed with a somewhat austere character; openings are widely spaced with little ornamentation. The walls are painted roughcast render, with ashlar sandstone to the basement. Roofs are hipped natural slate over a corbelled sandstone eaves course; chimneys are rendered sandstone with replacement pots.

The principal elevation faces north and contains three windows at each floor. The central entrance at ground floor consists of a square-headed double-leaf timber panelled door with transom light and sidelights, surmounted by a simple triangular pediment and smooth rendered surround. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 6/6 sliding sash with sandstone sills at ground, first and second floors; the second floor has 3/3 sliding sash windows instead.

The east elevation is abutted at its right by the return and contains a replacement square-headed four-panelled timber entrance door and a single window at first floor. The west elevation contains timber-framed casement windows at each floor, with an exposed section at left containing two windows at each floor. A replacement square-headed vertically sheeted timber door with transom light provides access to the basement via sandstone steps, with a tunnel of brick soffit construction providing access to left and right. The south elevation contains four windows at each floor; exposed basement windows are blocked. The west elevation contains two windows at each floor; exposed basement windows are blocked.

Internally, the house displays a plan form atypical of the usual Georgian layout.

The house is set within a farm with a courtyard arrangement of outbuildings to the rear east. Access to the farmyard is between a pair of two-storey L-shaped outbuildings. Single-storey outbuildings abut the west end, with further lean-to extensions to the south-east and south-west. The farm buildings have hipped natural slate roofs with blue and black ridge tiles, harled and lime-washed walls, and square-headed timber-framed casement windows. Modern farm buildings stand to the east. The original access from Letfern Road at north is no longer in use; it passes through painted square rubble pillars with painted masonry coping supporting a pair of cast-iron gates.

Historical records show the property marked on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1833 as "Riverland", with "Glebe House" also captioned on the same plot. The second map of 1854 captions it "Riverland Glebe House" and the third simply "Riverland". A formal garden is marked on the first and second maps. The Townland Valuation Records of 1828–1840 list the property as "Dwelling House, kitchen and offices" occupied by Reverend D Burrows and valued at £50. In Griffith's Valuation, Reverend John B Chapman holds the property in fee as incumbent; its value is amended to £30 in 1884 and falls regularly in value until 1917 when valued at £9 5 shillings. The house is vacant with lessor John F Buchanan noted during the Annual Revision of 1897–1911. During the last Annual Revision, Charles Patterson holds the house and land in fee. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs make a brief mention: "Gentlemen's seats:…Reverend Robert Burrowes, Riverland." Although degraded, the farm yard setting survives.