Railview House, 53 Rakeeran Road, Dromore, Co Tyrone, BT78 3HN

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, located to the south side of Rakeeran Road. Rectangular-on-plan with single-storey lean-to boiler house to south. Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; replacement brick chimneys. Walls are ruled-and-lined-rendered with flush sandstone quoins over stepped plinth; west elevation is roughcast. Windows are timber-framed 2/2 sliding sashes; replacement uPVC casements to west elevation with replacement concrete sills to ground floor; painted sandstone sills elsewhere. Principal elevation faces east and consists of central square-headed entrance opening containing replacement timber panelled door with transom light and flanked by 1/1 sliding sash sidelights, accessed by stone steps; window to left and right; three windows at first floor. South gable contains small window to attic; abutted at ground floor by smooth rendered boiler house containing vertically-sheeted timber door to west. West elevation consists of central replacement uPVC door flanked left and right by single window; three windows at first floor (that to centre diminished in size); two rooflights to pitch. North gable contains single window at ground floor; replacement uPVC window at first floor. Setting House is set within farmyard with range of outbuildings to west; each has natural slate roof and coursed rubble lime-rendered walling with fieldstone quoins. To north-west, L-shaped single-storey stable block, dated 1871, with segmental-headed carriage-arches to south elevation. Attached at south is two-storey stable block with lean-to store accessed at first floor by sandstone steps; timber-framed openings have red brick voussoirs. Pair of wrought-iron gates supported by sandstone pillars within rubble walling provide access to garden at north of house. Principal access from road through pair of wrought-iron gates supported on octagonal rendered piers; site bounded to road at north by timber fence; farmyard accessed through farm gates in roughcast walling in alcoved entrance. Roof Natural slate Walling render Windows timber & uPVC RWG uPVC