46-48 Campsie Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 0AG

A pair of semi-detached two-bay two-and-a-half-storey houses built around 1895, located on the north side of Campsie Road in Omagh.

The buildings are rectangular on plan with two-storey gabled returns abutted by a further shared one-and-a-half-storey gabled extension to the north. The south-facing principal elevation features canted outer bays at ground floor. Roofs are pitched natural slate with crested terracotta ridge tiles over decorative corbelled eaves. Corbelled red brick chimneys with clay pots rise from the roofline. The walls are Flemish bonded red brick with string courses to the window heads and second floor level.

The principal elevation faces south. The outer bays (bays one and four) are each abutted at ground floor by a flat-roofed canted bay with decorative corbelled eaves, with two windows at first floor. The second floor contains a dormer with a round-arched-headed window with stone sill supported on brick corbels, and square brick relief panels. The inner bays (bays two and three) each contain a rebated round-arched-headed entrance opening surmounted by shared hood moulds with decorative label stops containing a replacement four-panelled timber door with glazed fanlight, each surmounted by a single window at first floor. The west gable contains a single window at ground floor left, two windows at first floor, and a round-arched-headed window at second floor left, with a moulded string course at gable mid-point enclosing a brick relief motif.

The north elevation is abutted by gabled returns. The left return contains a single window at ground floor surmounted by a pair of timber casement windows at first floor, abutted at right by the extension. The east elevation contains a replacement timber entrance door flanked by a window. The west elevation is abutted by the right return. The right return contains a replacement timber entrance door flanked by a window at left surmounted by two windows at first floor, abutted at left by the extension. The west elevation contains two windows at ground floor surmounted by a single window at first floor right. The gable of the extension is blank. The east elevation contains two windows at ground floor surmounted by one window at first floor left. The west elevation contains, at ground floor, a vertically-sheeted timber door flanked by a timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash window at right, and a 1/1 sliding sash window at first floor right. The east gable contains a single window at ground floor right, two windows at first floor, and a round-arched-headed window at second floor right, with a moulded string course at gable mid-point enclosing a brick relief motif.

Windows are square-headed replacement uPVC casements with carved sandstone lintels and sills. Windows to the returns and extension have brick voussoirs.

The property is bounded to the road at south by yards enclosed by rendered plinth walling surmounted by steel railings at number 48 and cast-iron railings at number 46. To the north, a pair of two-storey gabled apartments extend at first floor over a vehicular access to a carpark at the rear of the site.

Historical records indicate the buildings first appear on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1906 and are entered in Annual Revisions in 1898. The original lessor was James Greer, with James Kirkpatrick as occupier, who sublet one villa to the Misses Gray. Both houses were valued at £24, 15 shillings and 5 shillings for the garden. In 1934, valuers estimated the cost of building each house at £1,065. The occupiers at that time were James McCauley and John McGale, with lessors James McCauley and the Representatives of James Greer. The houses each comprised a kitchen, scullery, two receptions and one bedroom on the ground floor, with one reception, three bedrooms, a bathroom and WC upstairs. Post-1934, the value was raised to £37 each. Outbuildings to the rear, built contemporaneously with the houses, have since been converted into flats.

Although significant in the locale, extensive alterations have compromised its architectural and historic interest. The property is now in office use.