36 Drumderg Road, Derrylin, Co Fermanagh BT92 9QB

Single-storey thatched dwelling of 'direct entry' type, built before 1834, located near the corner of Drumderg Road and Teemore Road, approximately 7 kilometres south of Derrylin and 2 kilometres west of Teemore in County Fermanagh.

A small building matching the position of the present house appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, alongside a slightly larger structure to its north-west, both close to the Teemore Road which at that date tracked further southwards than it does today. Neither property is recorded in the 1836 valuation of Tomregan Parish, presumably due to their modest size. The 1857 revised Ordnance Survey map shows the house as slightly longer, suggesting it may have reached its present extent by that date, though the map scale makes this difficult to confirm with certainty. The 1862 valuation records three properties in this vicinity, all leased from George Collins of Garvary Lodge. One was occupied by Peter Curry (valued at £1-15-0), a second by Francis McBrien (valued at 15/-), and a third by Ellen McKenna (valued at 5/-), the last appearing to have been sited some distance to the east fronting Teemore Road and demolished in 1876. The first two properties, which must correspond to this house and its near neighbour, were recorded as 'in ruins' by 1923-24 and do not appear in valuation records until at least 1929. The 1935 general revaluation lists the plot merely as 'land', but by 1940 the valuers record a house on the site again, occupied by Peter McBrien, suggesting the building was restored and reoccupied in the late 1930s. McBrien remained the recorded occupant in 1956.

The dwelling consists of a main thatched section with a lean-to outbuilding perpendicular to it, constructed of painted and rendered concrete block with a pitched tin roof. The front elevation presents, from left to right: the lean-to outbuilding with timber panelled door and small boarded-over window; a taller single bay with a window opening and asbestos sheeting to the roof with remnants of thatch at the apex; and a single-storey porch extension with a slightly sloping tin roof, a door opening on the south-west face, and two window openings on the right side with a thatched roof above and a centrally located painted stone chimney with one replacement black pot.

The south-west gable elevation features the lean-to outbuilding with two door openings with sheet metal doors, adjoined by a low tin-roofed outbuilding, which in turn abuts the main gable of the dwelling. A single window opening at first floor level contains a top-hung timber window. The north-east gable elevation has one first floor window opening with a top-hung timber casement. The rear (north-west) elevation shows one window opening to the right side beneath a thatched roof section, with a blank wall beneath the asbestos roof section.

The main walls are constructed of painted roughcast. The roof comprises thatch to the main section, asbestos sheeting to the left side when viewed from the front, and tin roof with a slight slope over the porch extension and lower left 'byre' section. All windows except the top-hung timber casements in the gable elevations are replacement uPVC, as is the front door. Rainwater goods are painted metal.

Several outbuildings stand within the grounds: a single-storey structure with tin roof and painted concrete block walls (Building B); a small single-storey store to the front with painted rendered walls, a timber panelled door on the north-east side, and a square timber-framed window opening without glass on the south-east face (Building C); a barrel-roofed barn with sheet metal upper walls and concrete block lower walls (Building D); and a single-storey painted rendered building with asbestos sheeted roof and boarded-up window openings, located within the wider setting but apparently beyond the fence boundary and under different ownership (Building E).

The dwelling fronts onto Drumderg Road at an angle, set behind a coursed stone wall with piers, painted concrete coping, and a metal gate.

While thatched dwellings are becoming increasingly rare in Northern Ireland, historical evidence indicates this house was ruinous around 1920. The building has insufficient historic fabric remaining to meet the legislative test for listing.