94 Scraghy Road, Killen, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone, BT81 7SL

94 Scraghy Road, Killen, Castlederg

This is a single-storey, three-bay, direct entry house dating from the first half of the 19th century, located about six and a half miles south-west of Castlederg on the road to Ederny. The original layout and much of the architectural detail have been retained.

The house faces north-west and is set back a short distance on the south-east side of the road. It is constructed of rubble stonework dressed with corner stones and finished with plaster or harling. The roof is covered with corrugated iron that oversails the gables. A chimneystack with a capping finishes over each gable, with a similar feature serving the kitchen hearth. Rainwater goods are of plastic.

A windbreak porch with a lean-to concrete slab roof protects the entrance, which is served by a flush door with a glazed panel in the upper part. To either side of the door are timber-framed vertically sliding windows with sashes divided into two panes horizontally and curved sash stops. At the extreme right is a top-hung timber-framed window. Window sills are of traditional depths.

The south-west gable is blank. The north-east gable has two openings: at ground floor level a timber-framed vertically sliding window with plain sashes (the bottom one increased in size) and square sash stops; above this a timber-framed fixed window divided horizontally into two panes with curved sash stops. Sills are of traditional depths.

At the rear, a bedroom projection contains a similar window to that in the parlour, from which it is entered, but with curved sash stops.

Two outbuildings of exposed stone with rubble construction are present. The larger building, set at an angle close to the dwelling, exhibits two periods of construction and has a sawn roof structure supporting corrugated iron. The front door is timber sheeted with metal, and two flush doors are placed at the side nearest the house. The space above the front door is sheeted with timber, and a toilet of corrugated iron construction with a timber sheeted door extends on the north-east side.

The smaller building, probably formerly used as a pigeon house, is sited some distance away to the north. It has a ledged and plank door flanked on the right by a small aperture with a thin stone sill, positioned to allow access for birds.

Historical records show that these buildings do not appear on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833, when an eastern branch of the road proceeded northwards to Castlederg continuously through this point. By the 1854 Ordnance Survey map, the dwelling appears as a simple rectangle, curtailing the road to Castlederg to the extent that it can no longer be used as a carriageway.