Lisnaharney Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT79 7UF

Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house on Lisnaharney Road, Omagh, built around 1880. The building is rectangular on plan, facing south with its rear elevation facing into a rectangular yard enclosed by single and two-storey stone outbuildings.

The main house has a pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and a pair of brick chimneystacks to either gable end with an angled brick course. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout. The walling is painted rough-cast render. Square-headed window openings are fitted with concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows. The symmetrical three-bay front (south) elevation features a central square-headed door opening with a replacement timber panelled and glazed door flanked by fixed-pane sidelights on concrete sills and a rectangular overlight. The door opens into an enclosed, overgrown front garden with a wrought-iron pedestrian gate on stone piers leading to the lane to the east. The west gable is blank and has a lean-to single-storey structure. The symmetrical three-bay rear (north) elevation has a central square-headed door opening with a vertically-sheeted timber door with glazed upper panel, opening directly into the rear yard. The east gable is blank and abuts the approach lane.

To the west of the house is a single-storey painted stone structure with a pitched corrugated iron roof and timber vehicular door. The west side of the yard is enclosed by a three-bay two-storey painted rubble stone outbuilding with a pitched natural slate roof, black clay ridge tiles, and steel rainwater goods. The walling is white-washed coursed rubble stone with tooled quoins. Square-headed window and door openings have stone lintels and sills, with vertically-sheeted timber doors and shutters. The north of the yard contains a single-storey outbuilding with a pitched corrugated iron roof, white-washed rubble stone wall, and a single vehicular opening with double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors. A flight of concrete steps spans the space between this building and the two-storey building. The east side of the yard is enclosed by a further range of single-storey outbuildings with a pitched natural slate roof to the southern half and corrugated iron roof to the northern half. These have white-washed rubble stone walls, square-headed door openings with stone and timber lintels, vertically-sheeted timber doors, and a single timber sliding sash window to the south gable. The yard opens into a lane to the east of the house in a southerly direction to meet Lisnaharney Road.

Historical records show that buildings have occupied this plot since at least 1833, when they appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. The current house appears on the third edition map of 1905-6, replacing an earlier house with a similar footprint. Valuation and survey records support a construction date of around 1880. Griffith's Valuation records show that the buildings were occupied by Timothy Shaw and leased from Thomas Black, valued at £1 5 shillings. By 1883, James Cooke became the occupier, and a note from 1894 states 'house built a few years, slate, 36x21x15', with the valuation raised to £2 15 shillings. James Cooke became the owner in fee in 1906. In 1933, valuers noted that the house comprised a ground floor of two rooms, a kitchen and pantry, and a first floor of 'one room subdivided into four'.

The house forms a representative example of a grouping once common in rural areas. However, the late date of construction and the loss of original fenestration and detailing has compromised its architectural and historic interest.