Vernacular House, Drumboghanagh Glebe, Cavan Road, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8FB

This is a roadside vernacular house with a connected outbuilding, dating to approximately 1880-1899. It sits on the east side of the Cavan Road, in the townland of Drumboghanagh Glebe, near Newtownbutler. Despite some later alterations, the buildings retain some character and form a pleasant feature on the roadside.

The main house is a one-and-a-half storey, two-bay structure aligned north-south. It has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with a central brick chimney. The eaves overhang, with exposed rafter tails, and support plastic rainwater goods. The walls are whitewashed lime-plaster over a tarred base course. Windows are uPVC top-hung casements with painted reveals and stone sills. The west-facing front elevation features a projecting entrance porch centrally positioned. This porch has a pitched roof with artificial slate and timber bargeboards, set on walls finished with painted cement rendering. The front of the porch has a window in the centre, a timber-sheeted door on the left side, and a blank section on the right. The left gable has a side-hung casement window near the apex. The rear elevation is blank. A lower outbuilding is attached to the right gable of the main house and is now incorporated into the dwelling. The exposed section of the outbuilding has a window near the apex. The outbuilding’s front elevation has cement-rendered walls similar to the main house and a pitched roof covered in corrugated metal. It features a timber top-hung casement window on the left, a tongue-and-groove sheeted door on the right, and a blank gable on the rear. A large opening, set to the left of centre on the rear of the outbuilding, has been infilled and rendered.

A small building is shown on an Ordnance Survey map from 1834. A larger building, similar in size to the present house, is depicted on the 1857 Ordnance Survey map. However, the property’s valuation increased significantly between 1880 and 1899, rising from 15 shillings to £3 and 10 shillings, and was described as a "house and forge," suggesting a rebuild at that time. The 1907 Ordnance Survey map references the gable annex as a "smithy."