Farmhill, Cloncallick, Newtownbutler, Co Fermangh, BT92 6DA

Farmhill is an impressive late 18th-century farmhouse located at Cloncallick, near Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh. It is a two-storey building with basement and attic, arranged on a three-bay plan, aligned north-east to south-west. The house is accessed by a long curving drive and is notable for its distinctive formal composition created by curved single-storey outbuildings sweeping to the rear of each gable.

The principal elevation faces south-east. The walls are wet-dashed with stucco-banded quoins and a smooth rendered platband below the ground floor windows. A pitched natural slate roof with rendered brick chimneys to each gable is carried on advanced eaves with half-round metal rainwater goods. The attic features a central lunette window in the gable. A later entrance porch with pitched natural slate roof and overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails occupies the centre. The door is timber with margin-paned top-panels, 2x2 sidelights, and 3x2 glazed cheeks, over which is a triangular transom with coloured margins. The door is accessed by stone steps rising as an arch, each cheek having a small window.

The basement has metal-framed 2/2 windows to each end bay. The ground floor has two 2/2 vertically divided sliding sash windows with stone cills flanking the porch in each end bay. Between these, at first floor level, is a similar but diminished window. The left and right gables are identical, each abutted by a single-storey outbuilding forming a wing. The exposed gable sections have two 4/2 sliding sash windows to the attic.

The rear elevation displays an exposed basement level and a central bowed stairwell rising to eaves level, surmounted by a natural slate roof with finial. The right and left bays have windows at basement, ground floor, and first floor levels. Basement windows are metal-framed casements; ground floor windows are 6/6 sliding sashes; and first floor windows are diminished 6/3 sashes, all with stone cills. The bowed stairwell has three openings: a tongue-and-groove sheeted door with upper glazed pane to the basement, a glazed six-panelled door to ground floor, and a semicircular-headed opening (now boarded over) to the second floor.

A small farmyard to the rear is enclosed by the curved wings. The outbuildings are single-storey with pitched roofs. The outbuilding to the right gable has a corrugated-metal roof, while the other has a natural slate roof. Walls are lime-rendered with tongue-and-groove sheeted openings. The right gable outbuilding has a door to the south-east face, a shallow segmental-headed opening to the centre of the rear north-west face, a door to its right, and a door to its end gable. The left gable outbuilding has two doors: a loading door to the centre and a modern metal roller door. Its end gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding with a lean-to corrugated-metal roof.

Internally, the house retains much of its original fabric, including decorative plasterwork and doorcases.

Historical records indicate that Farmhill is shown in its present form on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map and subsequent editions. The 1836 Valuation book records it as belonging to Charles Crow, measuring 45 feet by 18 feet by 18 feet (excluding basement), and valued at £15 15s 0d, a relatively high figure for the period. It was occupied by James Armstrong in the early 1860s. The house is dated to the late 18th century, probably between 1780 and 1799.