Carrigan's House, Carrigans, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 6FL

Carrigan’s House is a T-plan, two-storey house built around 1881, located within maturely planted grounds in Carrigans, Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. It retains several features of architectural interest. The house is aligned east-west and has a hip roof covered in natural slate, with three yellow brick chimneys—one between each bay of the main block and a third to the rear return—each topped with octagonal terracotta pots. A cement-rendered eaves course supports half-round metal rainwater goods.

The principal, south-facing elevation is cement-rendered with stepped stucco quoins over a base course. A central entrance porch, detailed with decorative timber bargeboards and a blocked cornice, fronts the house. The porch’s left cheek has a modern stained timber six-panelled door, while the front face and right cheek each feature semicircular-headed 1/1 sliding sash windows with stone sills. Each end bay has a 1/1 margin-paned sliding sash window with a moulded architrave and stone sill; similar windows are positioned above these. The west and east elevations each have two windows to each floor, all being 1/1 margin-paned with stone cills, with the windows to the right of the east cheek being narrower and without margin panes. The rear elevation is almost entirely hidden by a two-storey return; the exposed sections are blank. The west face of the return has two windows to each floor, like the main block. The rear gable has a 2x4 metal-framed window to the first floor on the left. The east cheek is abutted by a two-storey stairwell return and a later one-and-a-half-storey addition, both architecturally matching the main block and with blank exposed sections. The stairwell return features a tall semicircular-headed 1/1 sliding sash window with coloured margins to the left, and a 1/1 sliding sash window to its right. The addition originally had a pitched natural slate roof but has been altered to a mansard-type. Its rear face has a tongue and groove sheeted door and a 2x4 metal-framed window. A similar window is located on the left cheek of the addition.

The house was first documented in the Valuation Revision Book of 1881, described as a caretaker's house valued at £20, and is named Carrigans House on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map.