Crevenagh House, 44 Crevenagh Road, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, BT79 0EH

Crevenagh House is a detached three-storey rendered house built around 1840, with extensions dating to circa 1880. The building is located on an elevated landscaped site to the east of Crevenagh Road in Omagh, facing west.

The main house forms a U-plan with a central well. It is a three-bay two-storey structure with a single-storey rendered entrance porch, a two-bay two-storey return to the southeast, and a single-bay two-storey wing to the northeast. The walling is finished in ruled-and-lined cement render with rusticated render quoins to the corners of the main house and a projecting plinth course.

The roof throughout is hipped with natural slate. The main house has overhanging eaves on paired brackets with incorporated guttering and square-profile cast-iron downpipes. Behind the front pitch are a pair of symmetrically placed rendered chimneystacks with raised-and-fielded panels and decorative clay pots. Three further slender stone ashlar stacks rise on the rear pitch with moulded coping and octagonal clay pots. The northeast wing has a hipped roof with raised lead ridges and a central rendered chimneystack with octagonal clay pots. The southeast return has a half-hipped roof set below the eaves of the rear of the main body, with lead ridges and a large rendered chimneystack with octagonal clay pots.

The principal west elevation is symmetrical with three bays at two storeys, interrupted by a central single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch. Windows are square-headed with stone sills and moulded architrave surrounds. The first-floor openings comprise tripartite timber sash windows with 6/6 panes flanked by 4/4 panes. Ground-floor openings have a plain frieze and cornice over. The entrance porch is canted with overhanging eaves supported on diminutive brackets, moulded drip course, and Roman cement moulding. A bipartite window to the porch front contains 4/4 timber sash windows with a central sash box. Both side elevations of the porch have square-headed door openings with elaborate Roman cement doorcases comprising an architrave surround flanked by semi-pilasters surmounted by a plain frieze and moulded cornice. A later glazed timber door opens to the south; the northern opening is blocked up.

The north side elevation is also three-bay, with 6/6 timber sash windows to the side bays (the east ground-floor window has been replaced with uPVC). The central bay is wider, containing a tripartite first-floor window and a bipartite ground-floor window, the latter with a plain frieze and cornice. A flat-roofed corridor with running cornice slightly recessed from the main structure connects the main house to the northeast wing, with a doorcase and glazed timber panelled door opening onto rounded stone steps.

The northeast wing contains a pair of first-floor window openings with architrave surrounds and single-pane timber sash windows. The ground floor features a three-sided canted bay with running cornice and three window openings, each with architrave surrounds and single-pane timber sash windows on a continuous stone sill course.

The rear east elevation of the main body is abutted by the connecting corridor and southeast return, finished in earlier rough-cast render with brickwork visible. A round-headed stair-hall timber sash window is visible. The rear elevations of the northeast wing and southeast return contain square-headed window openings with later single-pane timber sash windows to the northeast wing and earlier 6/3 timber sash windows to the southeast return. A square-headed door opening with glazed timber door opens into an enclosed rear yard with lean-to sheds and a pair of tall rendered piers.

The south elevation comprises a further three bays to the main body, mirroring the north side elevation, with a lower three-bay two-storey elevation to the return set slightly back. Windows conform to those on the north elevation, while the return contains 6/3 timber sash windows.

The setting comprises an elevated landscaped site with a front gravel area continuing south as a winding avenue before returning north towards the main road and gate lodge. To the southeast is a detached three-bay single-storey stone garden structure with a front railed area, hipped natural slate roof with raised lead ridges, coursed stone walling to the front elevation, and rough-cast render over redbrick to other elevations. A central square-headed window with stone ashlar surround and carved keystone is flanked by a pair of square-headed door openings with stone ashlar surrounds and vertically-sheeted timber doors. Further southeast lies an enclosed farmyard with a two-storey multi-bay range of outbuildings and an extensive walled garden.