House adjoining, 31 Comber Road, Ballynamullan, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 0HS

This is an attached, two-bay, single-storey vernacular dwelling built around 1900 and located on the west side of Comber Road, at the corner of Drumnakilly Road. It retains its original form and layout, along with a tarred natural slate roof and is set within private grounds. While of local interest, its design is typical of its late date.

The house is rectangular, with a pitched extension to the rear connected by a flat-roofed link block. The roof is natural slate coated in tar, featuring blue/black clay ridge tiles, raised rendered verges, and lime-rendered corbelled chimneys. The extension roof is corrugated metal. The walls are of rubble construction, lime-rendered over a painted plinth. Windows are metal casements with painted masonry sills. The principal, east-facing elevation features a central, square-headed timber door with a glazed panel, flanked by single windows on either side. The south gable is blank. The west elevation has a single window on the right, and is abutted at the left by a return containing a single window to the south. The north gable is abutted by an adjoining house.

The setting includes a corrugated metal shed to the rear, an attached single-storey house to the north with a pitched corrugated metal roof, and hedging bordering the south, west, and east sides. A rendered plinth wall separates it from the adjoining house to the north, and access is provided from the road to the east through a pair of metal gates supported on concrete piers.

The site first appeared on Ordnance Survey maps around 1900, and the building’s footprint has remained unchanged since. Historical records show a “Cottier’s House” was on the site in 1890, which was demolished in 1901, before a new “house” appeared in 1912. The vernacular style suggests a late 19th or early 20th-century build, but the metal casement windows indicate a rebuilding around 1910 on the site of a comparable property.