106 Dromore Road, Fintona, Co Tyrone, BT78 2DN

A detached three-bay single-storey house located to the west side of Legatiggle Road, Fintona. The main body was built around 1860, but incorporates a single-storey bay at the north gable which dates to around 1830 and may originally have been thatched. The house retains traditional proportions and an intact vernacular plan form, with detailing that remains largely unchanged, particularly in the windows and interior fittings.

The building is rectangular on plan, facing east, with a central off-centre single-storey entrance porch to the right. A single-storey lean-to extension extends from the rear. The pitched roof is metal sheeted and features two smooth rendered corbelled chimneys. Cast-iron u-profile rainwater goods are fitted throughout. The walls are rendered and ruled-and-lined in smooth finish, with a projecting stone plinth. Windows are predominantly 2/2 timber sliding sashes with smooth rendered banding and projecting stone cills, though metal casements are present on the west elevation.

The principal east-facing elevation is flanked by single windows at each side of the entrance porch, which contains a square-headed vertically sheeted timber door with sidelights. The south gable is blank. The rear west elevation incorporates a single-storey lean-to extension at its centre, containing a replacement timber panelled door with sidelights. A single pane timber casement window is set into the right cheek of this extension. The north gable is abutted by the single-storey rectangular bay built circa 1830, with windows on its east, west and north elevations.

Field evidence suggests the dwelling was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century as an extension to the existing single-bay dwelling, indicated by differing building lines and verge materials (the southern section showing concrete). The original northern bay may have been thatched.

The house is well-sited within a rural farmyard setting, accessed by lane from the east. Outbuildings are situated to the west and south, traditionally constructed from random rubble walling with metal sheeted roofs. A cast-iron cowtail pump is located to the rear of the house.

Ordnance Survey maps show a house on the first edition of 1833 corresponding to the northern half of the present building, with the southern half including the porch appearing on the 1905-6 edition. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 divides the plot into two properties, both listed as a house, offices and land, valued at £0.10 shillings each and occupied by James Jameson and Crayton Byrne respectively. The properties were leased from James MacFarland. Valuation Revisions document several changes of occupier and a change in lessor to W Johnston and John Eccles in 1877. William J Ewing became the owner and lessor of the current house in 1887, when the two properties appear to have been amalgamated into one, suggesting either that the second dwelling was demolished or that it became an outbuilding. By 1933, Harpur Ewing was the owner in fee, with property value revised to £1.15. The house at that date comprised a kitchen and two rooms, constructed of rubble masonry and corrugated iron, measuring 45 feet by 17 feet by 11 feet.