29 Curr Road, Beragh, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 0UP

A detached three-bay two-storey house built around 1880, located on the west side of Curr Road at the corner of Meenmore Road in Gortaclare, Beragh. The building retains original proportions and exterior detailing including architraves and keyblock mouldings from the period of major rebuilding work in the 1880s. However, extensive alterations and the use of inappropriate materials and finishes have degraded the property and compromised its historic and architectural character.

The house is rectangular on plan with a single-storey flat-roofed porch to the north and a single-storey extension to the west built around 2007. The pitched roof is natural slate, replaced around 2000, with terracotta ridge tiles over corbelled eaves. Red brick chimneys feature replacement clay pots. The walls are ruled-and-lined rendered with smooth rendered quoins.

Windows throughout are replacement square-headed uPVC casements in painted moulded sandstone surrounds with vermiculated keyblock detail, with painted sandstone sills. The principal elevation faces north, with the left and right bays each containing a single window at each floor and the central bay containing two windows at each floor. At ground floor right, the porch abuts the elevation. The porch is surmounted by a moulded cornice and parapet with dentil detail, and features a single window to the north and west elevations. The east elevation contains a replacement square-headed uPVC entrance door with transom light in a moulded surround with colonettes and keyblock detail.

The east gable contains three windows at ground floor without surround and two windows at first floor. The south elevation contains three windows at each floor on the left side; at ground floor right, a flat-roofed commercial unit abuts the elevation, with an exposed section at first floor containing two windows. The west gable is abutted at ground floor by the extension, with the exposed first-floor section being blank.

The property sits in mature gardens and is directly accessed from the roadside at the east. A cast-iron pump with cowstail handle and a wall-mounted water pump are located to the south.

A farmyard to the south contains a range of outbuildings with pitched natural slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls. The south-west building is single-storey with segmental-headed carriage arches and double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber doors, with an attached gabled building to the south. The building to the south has a corrugated metal roof on the left and a hipped slated roof on the right, with vertically-sheeted timber doors and metal casement windows. The yard is enclosed at the east by large corrugated sheds, with access from the west through a pair of wrought-iron gates supported by square pillars.

Historical development indicates that a rectangular building stood on the site from at least 1833. The house appears in its current form on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1906. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records a house, offices and shop valued at £1 15 shillings, occupied by James Bell and leased from Thomas Roleston. The valuation increased to £12 in 1879, and by 1877 the property description included a shop and cottiers house. This evidence suggests significant remodelling or rebuilding of the original dwelling took place in the 1870s. The proportions of the façade and the presence of a wall hearth in the kitchen suggest the building may originally have been single-storey, extended during the late 1870s. The roof was replaced around 2000 and a western extension was built around 2007.

Rainwater goods are uPVC.