55 Corlagh Road, Dromore, Co Tyrone, BT78 3NJ

55 Corlagh Road is a detached three-bay two-storey house dated 1836, located on the east side of Corlagh Road in Dromore, Co Tyrone. It is a substantial example of its type, retaining most of its original fabric and character.

The house is rectangular in plan with a single-storey lean-to addition to the north. The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles over brick corbelled eaves, raised stone verges, and roughcast brick chimneys with replacement clay pots. The walls are lime-rendered, with the west gable roughcast. Windows are timber-framed sliding sash: 6/6 at ground floor and 2/2 at first floor, all with exposed sash boxes and sandstone sills.

The principal elevation faces south, comprising a central round-arched entrance containing a vertically-sheeted timber door with fanlight, flanked by windows on each side, with three windows at first floor. The west gable is blank. The north elevation is abutted at its centre by a red brick lean-to, now partially derelict with a collapsed roof; the exposed sections contain 2/2 and 4/4 sliding sash windows at ground floor and 3/3 sliding sash windows at first floor, with two small 2/2 sliding sash windows at first floor. The lean-to has a fixed glazed window with timber lintel to the east. The east gable is blank.

The building retains its original simple plan form, with principal rooms accessed from a central stair hall which remains intact. Original ornate detailing survives, including plasterwork and a wall-hearth to the kitchen.

The house is set within a farmyard with a single-storey rubble stable block with pitched corrugated metal roof, abutted at its west by the remains of a rubble building. To the north-east stands a two-storey lime-rendered building with pitched natural slate roof. The site is accessed from a lane at the west; a remains of a rubble boundary wall survives to the south with a stone stile to the upper level, and a circular rubble gate pier stands to the south-east.

The house first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1853, with some outbuildings present on the earlier edition of 1833. A datestone of 1836 is borne on the building. Griffith's Valuation records a "house, office and land" valued at £4, occupied by John Deazley and leased from Charles Deazley. The valuation was increased to £4 5s in 1865 with William Deazley as occupier, and in 1904 it was revised to £4 with John Warnock as occupier in fee. A marriage settlement of 1853 suggests that Catherine Deazley married Alexander Warnock, explaining the property's passage to the Warnock family. John Howard Deazeley, a rector in Donegal and possible descendant of this family, was a published poet and translator of the classics, dying in 1924. After 1933 the house was occupied by James Whitaker and subsequently leased to Owen McGoldrick. At that time it comprised a kitchen, three bedrooms and a pantry on the ground floor and four bedrooms on the first floor, with the valuation raised to £5 and £1 10s for outbuildings. The building is decorated with Masonic symbols, suggesting a Masonic background to the Deazleys, though no sources have been found to verify this.