'Strathlomond', 54 Crevenagh Road, Omagh, BT79 0ER

Strathlomond is a detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, built around 1870, situated on the east side of Crevenagh Road on an elevated site within mature gardens.

The building is rectangular in plan with a two-storey canted bay to the north and a projecting bay to the west, together with a two-storey flat-roofed extension to the south added around 1990 to reflect the style of the original house. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles; the flat roof to the centre contains a pitched glazed rooflight that allows light into the deep plan. The roof is finished with decorative carved timber bargeboards (plain to the rear) and corbelled red brick chimneys with yellow brick detailing and clay pots.

The walls are constructed in English garden wall bonded red brick with sandstone quoins over a sandstone plinth, and are enriched by a decorative string course at first floor level—detailing typical of the late Victorian era. Windows are timber-framed with square heads and 2/2 sliding sashes at ground floor level and segmental-arched heads at first floor; all feature brick voussoirs with carved keyblock detail and shared sandstone sills. A small 1/1 sliding sash window with timber casement variant is present at attic level.

The principal elevation faces north. The gabled left bay contains two windows at ground and first floor and a single window to the attic, with fretted bargeboards. The central bay contains the entrance, which comprises timber panelled double-leaf doors accessed by stone steps and surmounted by a segmental-arched-headed fanlight in a moulded architrave, flanked by brick piers supporting a segmental-headed canopy. A single window at first floor sits above. The right bay is abutted by the canted bay, which contains single windows at each floor to each cheek, with a small 1/1 sash window to the attic.

The east elevation contains four windows at ground floor (the second from left was previously a door opening, now blocked) and small timber casement windows flanked by windows at first floor. An outbuilding abuts this elevation at ground floor left. The south elevation presents a pair of gables; the left gable contains windows at ground and first floor to the right, two small windows to the attic, and a window at ground floor and half-landing to the centre. The right gable is abutted by the flat-roofed extension; the exposed section is blank. The west elevation contains two windows at each floor to the left, abutted on the right by the projecting gabled bay containing two windows at each floor and single windows to the left and right cheeks.

The house is set within mature gardens accessed from Crevenagh Road at the west through a pair of wrought-iron gates supported by square rubble piers with sandstone coping; pedestrian access is at the left. An enclosed yard to the rear is accessed through a pair of timber gates supported by square brick pillars with sandstone coping.

The outbuildings include a single-storey building at the south (abutting the house), which is partially rebuilt and contains a vertically-sheeted door and window at the right accessing the rear hall of the house; a two-storey stable-block at the east with vertically-sheeted doors and timber casement windows at ground floor surmounted by louvred openings at first floor (rear elevation smooth rendered); and a single-storey rubble cottage with a thatched roof to the south-east, built as a folly in recent times. The outbuildings have asbestos tiled pitched roofs and brick walling with openings featuring brick voussoirs.

The building first appeared on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1906 captioned 'Strathlomond' together with stables to the east. It was entered into the valuation records in 1908 as a vacant property valued at £45, with Lieutenant Colonel J D Buchanan as lessor. In 1909 it was occupied by Colonel Irvine, and in 1921 the lessor was Frederick Johnston. H E Olphert became occupier in fee post-1934, with the value adjusted to £55. In 1935 the valuer noted that the villa had no electric or gas lighting and the water supply was by hand pump, dependent on rainfall; however, he also recorded that the villa was 'extremely well-built…main rooms very spacious and well-proportioned…Good situation in ornamental gardens.' Originally, the principal room at ground floor (G07) comprised two rooms, indicated by a ceiling beam and differing cornicing. Rooms at first floor (F03 and F07) appear also to have been subdivided at a later stage to create an ensuite bathroom. While of local interest, the building is not among the best examples of its type.