Tyrone County Club, 10 High Street, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 1BQ

Tyrone County Club

An attached three-storey brick county club with attic and classical detailing, built around 1900 to designs by G. W. Ferguson of Belfast, located on the north side of High Street in Omagh. The building is L-shaped, facing south, with a diminished three- and four-storey flat-roofed return to the rear, a two-storey flat-roofed projection to the rear of the return, and a two-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear of the projection.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, comprising three bays. The pitched natural slate roof features angled blue and black ridge tiles and red brick chimneystacks with moulded stone cornices. Three flat-headed lead-lined dormers contain painted timber 4-light casements, with the central example being bipartite. Replacement ogee-profile metal gutters with rectangular downpipes (embossed with foundry mark "APEX 4x5") run the length of the building.

The walling is Flemish-bonded red brick with sandstone quoins and sill-courses, surmounted by a moulded-and-dentilled cornice. The ground floor features horizontally banded sandstone over a splayed plinth. Windows are predominantly slightly segmental arch-headed painted timber 1/1 sashes with dropped sandstone keyblocks.

The second floor of the principal elevation contains four windows, with two positioned in the centre bay. The first floor is distinguished by 2/2 casement windows with additional sandstone voussoirs rising to a platband at lintel-level. A notable pedimented oriel window with painted timber mullion-and-transom casement is corbelled out at sill-course with sandstone brackets; the pediment features a central cartouche bearing the monogram "T.C.C."

The ground floor contains a central entrance flanked by segmental arch-headed openings with keyblocks. To the right is an open carriage arch with replacement sheeted timber double doors and a metal grille over. To the left is the club entrance, a painted timber moulded three-panel double-leaf door with a mullioned sidelight to the left and a three-light fanlight over. A further central entrance (accessing a retail shop in the former lobby) comprises a round-headed replacement painted timber-and-glazed double-leaf door with a plate-glass fanlight stilted over an overlight with moulded architrave and keyblock. This entrance is flanked by two-light sidelights in moulded architraves surmounted by pulvinated entablatures, with the fanlight flanked by two square plate-glass casements.

The west elevation is entirely abutted by an adjoining building. The exposed sections of the rear north elevation are Flemish-bonded red brick, with windows predominantly 2/2 sashes without keyblocks. The third floor contains a single window; the second floor has two windows, with the left example blocked with cement render; the first floor has a single segmental arch-headed stained glass casement; and the ground floor contains a carriage arch with a steel-beam lintel.

The return has a third floor containing two windows, a second floor with three windows (the centre being a full-height 4/4 sash), and the right cheek is blank. The left cheek features glazed bricks rising from above the basement floor to above the first floor sill-level. The left end has a single window to the third floor, two windows to the second and first floors, and the basement floor has a louvred casement window to the left.

The return projection, abutted to the left end by the extension, has a first floor with three diminished windows and a ground floor with a segmental arch-headed painted timber mullion-and-transom casement and a modern porch of no architectural interest. Both cheeks are blank.

The extension features two segmental arch-headed painted timber 4-light casements. The ground floor left end has a square-headed window, and the right end has two diminished casement windows. Both cheeks are blank, and the rear elevation contains a single casement window over a square-headed carriage arch.

The building is set back from the road to the south with a paved patio to the rear, accessible via the carriage arch.