The Old Rectory, Lower Langfield, Sloughan Road, Drumquin, Co.Tyrone, BT78 4PF

The Old Rectory is a detached five-bay two-storey rendered former rectory with basement and attic storey, dated 1762. The building is rectangular on plan and located to the south of Sloughan Road, facing northwest.

The pitched natural slate roof is topped with four rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Clay ridge tiles and stone raking coping finish the gable ends. A plain stone pediment marks the gabled entrance bay with a pitched natural slate roof, hipped to the eaves of the principal roof and finished with roll-moulded clay ridge tiles. Half-round cast-iron guttering runs on projecting eaves courses, supported on wrought-iron drive-through brackets, with cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. A hipped natural slate roof covers the corner canopy with a lead ridge and cast-iron gutter. Three iron roof lights sit in the rear pitch, with a further three iron roof lights in the lean-to roof over the basement.

The walling is painted rough-cast render on the front and rear elevations, with cement smooth render applied to both gabled side elevations. A slight projection exists at basement level on all four elevations. A carved sandstone date plaque on the centre of the east elevation reads "A.D. MDCC:XII Peu, A.? BENSON. DD Parochias, Rector. SIUI ET RectoriBus, SuccedenTiBus., POSUIT."

Square-headed window openings throughout feature painted stone sills and timber sash windows. Most are six-over-six with no horns; the three central bays of the rear basement elevation have six-over-three windows with thick glazing bars and a single bulls-eye pane. At attic level, diminutive square-headed window openings in each gable contain four-pane timber casement windows.

The symmetrical front elevation comprises five bays with two storeys over a part-roofed and part-concealed basement. A central single-bay two-storey gabled entrance projection dominates, with the entrance positioned to the east cheek and a canopy sheltering the approach. Flanking the entrance projection on both floors are slender window openings with four-over-four sash windows. At first floor level of the entrance projection, a round-headed window opening to the front and east side elevations contains multi-pane pivot windows (timber to the gable, iron to the east cheek) with an incorporated bats-wing fanlight. The round-headed door opening to the east cheek of the entrance projection has a moulded timber frame, a six-panelled timber door of flush profile with decorative iron furniture, and an iron bats-wing fanlight matching the window above. The door opens onto a stone-paved area bridging the basement, sheltered by a canopy supported on a plain timber post with wrought-iron railing to the east.

The gabled east elevation contains a single basement window opening and a diminutive attic window opening, with a rendered chimneystack rising from the gable. The rear elevation displays five bays with two storeys over an exposed basement. A three-sided canted oriel window at ground floor level (left) has a hipped natural slate roof, rendered base, and a six-over-six timber sash window flanked by two-over-two sash windows on a continuous stone sill course. The west elevation of the lean-to basement contains a square-headed door opening flush with the west gable, fitted with a tongue-and-groove timber door and slender rectangular overlight.

Adjacent to the west gable stands a single-storey stone outbuilding built of squared limestone with a half-hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods to exposed rafter feet. The building has three square-headed openings without doors. To the east of the house is a single stretch of decorative cast-iron railing on a low wall with a matching pedestrian gate. Further east stand a pair of rusticated ashlar stone piers with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Beyond these is a linear range of single and two-storey rubble stone outbuildings, now roofless and derelict.

The house occupies a large landscaped site opposite Lower Langfield Church to the northeast. The site descends from road level to the Black Water River. A long curved gravel driveway opens onto the road to the north through a pair of wrought-iron gates on octagonal rendered piers, flanked by matching pedestrian gates on octagonal piers. In the northern boundary wall opposite Lower Langfield Church of Ireland is a wrought-iron pedestrian gate between stone pillars with steps down to the road.