Lodge, Crevenagh House, 44 Crevenagh Road, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, BT79 0EH

Lodge at Crevenagh House

A detached three-bay single-storey rendered gate lodge built circa 1880, facing west towards the avenue. The building has a hipped natural slate roof with raised lead ridges and a central rendered chimneystack with clay pots. Plastic guttering is supported on wrought-iron drive-through brackets at the eaves, with a pronounced blocking course. The rendered walling sits on a splayed plinth course, and a full-width hood moulding runs across the front elevation. Square-headed window openings contain 2/2 timber sash windows with horizontal panes and stone sills. A central square-headed door opening houses a replacement vertically-sheeted hardwood door. Other elevations have replacement timber casement windows. A detached painted brick outhouse with pitched natural slate roof stands to the rear.

The property first appears as 'Creevenagh House' on the second edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1854, with a gate lodge and summer house also marked. Griffith's Valuation records the property as a house, offices, gate lodge and land, then occupied by the Hon Andrew Stewart and leased from Thomas Auchinleck, valued at £60. In subsequent Valuation Revisions, the Auchinleck family are listed as occupiers throughout, with the value rising to £78.10.0, then £80.10.0 in 1871 and £84.10.0 in 1883 when a new addition was built.

The main house itself was built by the Auchinleck family around 1810. It is a long, low two-storey rendered building with stone quoins and wide overhanging eaves. The three-bay design is given unusual scale by tri-partite windows throughout, with a polygonal single-storey central porch. The interior is noteworthy as a complete neo-classical villa with a double return staircase symmetrically planned on the axis of the hall, fine Grecian plasterwork, and heavily architectural character to the doors and fireplaces of the main rooms. The hall floor is paved in Italian marble in black, white and terracotta-red with scenes of the seven ages of man. The most notable member of the Auchinleck family was Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck.