112 Newtownsaville Road, Gortaclare, Sixmilecross, Co.Tyrone, BT79 0YG

An attached three-bay single-storey vernacular dwelling built around 1820, located on the east side of Newtownsaville Road. The building is distinctly vernacular in style with simple construction and materials, built in stone with a corrugated pitched roof, probably thatched originally. The house retains many original features and is well maintained, appearing unchanged from its original form and layout, excepting historic alterations such as raising of the eaves and increased window size. The dwelling does not follow the traditional direct- or lobby-entry plan form usual to such buildings; instead entry is to a central bay with hearth to the gable in the outer bay.

The main structure is rectangular on plan with a small wind-break porch to the north. Walls are of rubble construction and lime-rendered. The roof is pitched corrugated metal with raised stone verges and smooth rendered chimneys. The principal elevation faces north with the left bay containing a single window, the central bay containing a window flanked at right by a wind-break porch with a vertically-sheeted timber entrance door, and the right bay containing two windows. Windows throughout are timber-framed 1/1 sliding sashes with painted masonry sills. The east gable is blank and abutted by a stable containing a vertically-sheeted timber half-door and small window opening to the north; stone steps provide access to the loft at the east. The south elevation contains a single casement window to the main dwelling and four timber casement windows to the south elevation. The west gable is abutted by a two-bay outbuilding with a door opening containing a vertically-sheeted timber sliding door surmounted by a small opening to the attic; its north elevation contains a single vertically-sheeted door, and south elevation contains two casement windows at left and a wind-break porch flanked by a single window to right. A rubble boundary wall sits between the outbuilding and house at the south.

The attached outbuilding to the west is also consistent in style and composition with a vernacular dwelling, including wind-break porch, although having opposite orientation and now used as an outbuilding; this suggests it may have been a dwelling at some time during its life.

The setting is in a farmyard, with the house accessed at the north through a pair of iron gates supported on smooth rendered pillars in rendered walling. The site is bounded to the north by rubble walling. Two attached gabled farm buildings to the east and a further outbuilding to the north and rubble outbuilding with brick dressings to the south-west sit at the edge of the modern yard. A cast-iron water pump with cow-tail handle is located at the principal entrance.

The house is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. The property is not included in the Townland Valuation. The Griffith's Valuation map shows a dividing line between buildings on the plot, including the current house, indicating separate occupiers and owners. One group of buildings to the north is recorded as a "house, offices and land" occupied by Alexander Clements and leased from Francis Gervais, whilst further buildings are part of a property listed as "house, offices and land" occupied by John Clements and valued at £1 5s. The occupier of the buildings to the north is revised to James Clements in 1869. An additional "office" is added in 1872 to the property occupied by John Clements.