37 Main Street, Beragh, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 0SZ

An attached three-bay two-storey former parochial house, built circa 1810, located on the south side of Main Street in Beragh. The building remains an important element in the townscape, reflecting its former role as a townhouse of the Earl of Belmore and subsequent use as a parochial residence.

The house is rectangular on plan with a full-height return to the south and a single-storey lean-to extension to the south-west (added circa 1985, of no architectural interest). The pitched roof is natural slate with blue and black ridge tiles, cat-sliding to the return, and is finished with raised stone verges with saddleback coping. Yellow brick chimneys with replacement clay pots support the design, whilst a dentilled cornice runs across the principal elevation.

The exterior walls are ruled-and-lined rendered with reticulated rusticated quoins, retaining much of its original character and good plasterwork detailing. Windows throughout are square-headed timber-framed 6/6 sliding sash with moulded architrave to the principal elevation and painted masonry sills. The principal elevation faces north and comprises three openings to each floor arranged around a central square-headed four-panelled timber entrance door, flanked by pilasters and surmounted by a transom light with moulded surround and keyblock. All openings are surmounted by a moulded cornice with scroll detail. The east elevation contains two windows at attic level. The south elevation, partially obscured by the lean-to extension, contains a timber casement window at first floor; a return abutting the centre contains a single casement window to each floor, with a single window at ground floor and a uPVC casement window at first floor visible on the exposed right section. The west elevation is abutted by the adjoining house at 35 Main Street.

The house is directly accessed from Main Street to the north. An enclosed yard to the south is accessed via circular rendered pillars to the south-east supporting a pair of vertically sheeted timber gates. Within the yard are single-storey lean-to outbuildings to the east and west with corrugated metal roofs and painted rubble walls; a multi-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south features a pitched natural slate roof and painted rubble walls, with square-headed vertically sheeted timber doors to each floor.

Historical records document the property's evolving status. The Townland Valuation Records (1828–40) list it as a police barrack, yard and office valued at £8 8s 0d. Griffith's Valuation (1856–64) records it as occupied by the Earl of Belmore and held in fee, valued at £16 0s 0d, a valuation that persisted through the early Annual Revision Records. In 1869 Henry Watson leased the property from the Earl of Belmore. In 1892 the lessor became Reverend John Quinn, and from approximately 1897 the occupiers were priests. The valuation remained at £16 0s 0d throughout the recorded period. The building is described in contemporary sources as a 3-bay 2-storey house with mid-Victorian fancy stucco in a vaguely classical style, and it represents a good example of early 19th-century domestic architecture in virtually original condition.