Clanabogan House, 85 Clanabogan Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 1SL

Clanabogan House is a three-bay two-storey rendered house built around 1750 and remodelled in the early twentieth century, situated on the north side of Clanabogan Road. It is Grade B1 listed.

The house comprises a main two-storey double-pile block aligned north-south, flanked by two-storey porches at north and south. The rear pile is broken at its centre by a slightly lower two-storey projection that opens into a narrow internal courtyard. The courtyard is enclosed on either side by an original one-and-a-half-storey return range (the southern one with a later full-height gabled extension to the south) and by a slightly later one-and-a-half-storey service range to the west.

The roof is double-pile pitched natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles, stone verges, rendered chimneystacks with crown pots to gables and party walls. Half-round cast-iron rainwater goods are mounted on drive-in brackets over eaves corbels, with valley drains feeding into cast-iron hopper heads. The walling is roughcast rendered with contrasting painted masonry quoins, which are straight on the principal elevation and stepped on the side elevations.

Windows are mostly replacement six-over-six timber sashes without horns, set in painted stone architraves with projecting stone cills. A variety of mullioned two-over-two timber casements and sashes appear elsewhere on the building.

The principal elevation faces east and is symmetrical, with four openings to each floor, those at the centre grouped closer together. The side elevations are each abutted by a lower two-storey porch at the west end, with parapet screening to the central valley.

The south porch features a naively castellated parapet with a contrasting platband at eaves level. Its entrance, facing east, consists of a double-leaf door with original brass furniture and three decorative Gothick-style panels per leaf, set in a contrasting rendered surround and surmounted by a diminished-height six-over-six sash with horns. The south cheek has a window at each floor.

The north porch is gabled with ruled-and-lined rendered walling and contains a plainly detailed four-panelled timber door with brass knob, surmounted by a single window. The north cheek windows have been enlarged; the first-floor window is an early twentieth-century tripartite two-over-two window divided by timber mullions with label moulding over; the ground-floor window is a double side-hung casement with fixed side and top panes. The apron is painted rubble stone, and evidence of original stone jambs from a former door opening remains. Ghost marks indicate a pitched roof that formerly rose above the window head to the cill level of the first-floor window.

The rear elevation is almost completely abutted by lower return ranges and the central projection, except for a first-floor window to either side of the central projection, each surmounting a lean-to entrance porch (that to the right further abutted by a modern lean-to garden room). The central projection has windows to each floor, all with painted reveals, including a later casement insertion.

The south return is detailed as a house, with a projecting gabled bay (with concrete kneelers) lit by windows to each face on the right. South-facing windows have been enlarged and comprise a mixture of triple sashes divided by masonry mullions and six-over-six sashes with horns; first-floor windows have heads at eaves level, with the right window being a tripartite six-over-six flanked by two-over-two windows with timber mullions. The left cheek has similar windows to each floor, while the right cheek is abutted by the south porch.

The courtyard-facing elevation of the south return is abutted at ground floor by a lean-to garden room, with two windows to the half-storey, the left being a six-over-six horizontal sliding sash.

The north return is single storey at the west end due to ground topography. Its north elevation has a raised wall-head dormer with kneelers to the left of centre, to whose left are two six-over-six sashes to the ground floor, each surmounted by a four-over-four sash. Mid-twentieth-century casement window insertions light the kitchen; the remainder of windows are horizontal and infilled, with rendered architraves remaining. The left gable is abutted by the north porch, while the blank right gable has exposed rubble stone and is crow-stepped.

The courtyard-facing elevation of the north return has round-headed window insertions (circa 1980) to the ground floor and a single horizontal-sliding sash to the first floor.

The service range, set parallel to the main body of the house, is a three-bay two-storey rendered block enclosing the internal courtyard to the west. It has a hipped natural slate roof and rough-cast rendered walling with square-headed window openings; some twelve-pane timber casement windows light the west elevation, and three-over-six and six-over-six timber sash windows light the internal east elevation. A flight of concrete steps on the west elevation abuts the north return.

The house is set within five acres of mature gardens and is accessed by a winding avenue from north and south. Close to the house is a pair of wrought-iron entrance gates on cast-iron piers, with a further single stone pier with pyramidal cap set nearby. A modern sports field encroaches on the setting to the south. To the south is a small complex of single-storey outbuildings, cranked in plan with pitched natural slate roofs and generally painted rendered walling. The northernmost outbuilding has been restored with exposed rubble stone walling and brick quoins, defined by three elliptical-headed arches formed in brick with brick voussoirs, all infilled and with modern hardwood windows inserted.