Corlatt House, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8ER

Corlatt House is a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay farmhouse situated on the south side of Crom Road in the townland of Corlatt, near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. Although a building is depicted at this location on an Ordnance Survey map from 1834, the present house likely dates to around 1870. The house was occupied by James Donegan in 1870, and appears on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map as Corlatt House.

The building is characterised by a pitched natural slate roof with stone skews and kneeler stones, with dressed stone chimneys to each gable. The walls are pebble-dashed with stepped stone quoins, resting on a cement-rendered base course. Windows are timber, top-hung casements with stone cills. The principal elevation faces north and features a striking timber entrance door composed of two raised elongated panels with bolection moulding and beaded muntins, flanked by two panelled pilasters with decorative curved heads. A shallow segmental headed fanlight with decorative glazing sits above the door, contained within a segmental-headed recess and accessed by a stone step. The ground floor bays are each punctuated by a window, and above these are three further windows, slightly reduced in height. A window is also present on the left gable’s ground floor.

The rear elevation is adjoined to the right-hand side of the right bay by a lean-to annexe with a monopitched natural slate roof. A fixed pane window is within the left cheek of the annexe. The remaining elevations are blank. The right gable has windows to the extreme left and centre. An internal stairwell is lit by the central first-floor window.

According to local information, Corlatt House was constructed around the same time as a nearby property (HB 12-02-059) by Dublin silversmith Patrick Donegan for his two sons. The Valuation revision book of 1870 records an increase in the building’s valuation from £3.10s.0d to £7.10s.0d, with a further increase to £9.10s.0d in 1874, likely due to the addition of outbuildings and a gate lodge.