House, Mullaghare, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8LY

This is a well-proportioned farmhouse, likely built around 1860 and situated on a lane to the east of Mullaghare townland in County Fermanagh. It remains a pleasant feature of the landscape, despite some later alterations using less sympathetic materials.

The house is a symmetrical, two-story, three-bay structure aligned north-south. It has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with two brick chimneys featuring decorative brick coping – one positioned on the party wall between the bays. The eaves slightly overhang, displaying exposed rafter tails and supporting plastic rainwater goods. Timber bargeboards adorn the gables. The walls are harled, contrasted by stepped, V-jointed stucco quoins and a base course. The windows are uPVC top-hung casements designed to resemble sash windows, with six panes each (6/6), and painted stone sills. The principal, east-facing elevation features a central entrance with a uPVC door, sidelights, and a semi-elliptical fanlight, flanked by windows on either side. Above the ground floor openings are three further windows, all framed by painted moulded architraves. The left gable is blank.

The rear elevation has a lower return abutting the left-center section, which is itself detailed as a house with a pitched artificial slate roof and a cement-rendered chimney on the exposed gable. This return is also blank. The right side (cheek) features a timber door to the right and a side-hung casement window with a concrete cill to the left. A similarly detailed uPVC window is present on the left cheek. The right gable has a large window, resembling the others, set to the left of center on both floors. To the right of that window, on the ground floor, is a small, obscurely glazed timber top-hung casement.

The house is set within a maturely planted garden to the front, accessible through a pair of cast-iron gates supported on square-in-section, stop-end chamfered gate piers with raised panels to each side and decorative moulded copings. A farmyard lies to the rear.

The house first appeared on the 1857 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, and a valuation of £6 is recorded in the 1862 Valuation book. Its value increased to £8.10s.0d in 1911, suggesting a significant refurbishment and/or enlargement at that time.