Building at Burrell's Folly, (to west of) Burrell's Glen, Omagh Road, Drumquin, Co Tyrone, BT78 4QX

A two-storey, four-bay stone house, now vacant and in use as a farm building, built c.1830 as offices for a large house and located to the south of Drumquin Village. The house is rectangular on plan, facing north, extended to west by lower two-storey extension. The roof is pitched natural slate with stone corbelled eaves. There are dressed stone chimneystacks to gables. Rainwater goods are gone but drive-in metal brackets remain. Walling is lime rendered over random rubble stone construction with dressed stone quoins evident beneath. Windows are missing, some boarded over, with remains of timber framed windows; cills are stone. Doors are gone, some blocked with wooden pallets. Principal (yard-facing) elevation faces north and is asymmetrical. Some openings have been enlarged. Ground floor consists of four bays, accessed by a variety of openings, some enlarged and supported on steel or timber lintels. To extreme right end is an external flight of stone steps supported on a cast-iron column leading to a loading door. Left gable is abutted by the remains of a single storey byre of rubble stone construction, now roofless and overgrown. Rear (road-facing) elevation consists of four equally spaced window openings to each floor, the majority infilled with rubble stone. Right gable is abutted by the lower outbuilding, comprising (to yard-facing elevation) two door openings and a window opening to ground floor and two window openings to first floor. The road-facing south elevation is of coursed random rubble and has two infilled window openings with stone cills. This is further extended to right by the remains of a roofless rubble stone structure with fireplace and chimneybreast to the south wall. Wall heads are heavily covered with ivy growth. Setting The house bounds the south side of a triangular site and is set at a skew alongside a small stream flowing immediately to south, which is bridged by a country lane. The internal yard is accessed at east end by a pair of wrought-iron gates. The west side of the yard is bounded by a high coursed random rubble stone wall with square-headed opening formed with heavy fieldstone lintel leading to an overgrown paddock, possibly a former garden. Directly to north is a recent housing development (partially occupying the site of the main house). Roof Natural slate Walling stone/lime render Windows Missing RWG Missing