Cornamucklagh House, 74 Blackhill Road, Fintona, Co Tyone, BT78 2LN

Cornamucklagh House is a detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey house built around 1900, located on the north side of Blackhill Road in Fintona, County Tyrone. It is a simple dormered house of rectangular plan with a single-storey gabled porch to the west and an attached single-storey outbuilding to the north.

The roof is pitched with artificial slates and blue-black clay ridges over timber eaves, finished with timber bargeboards. Red brick chimneys rise from the main structure; the north extension has natural slate roofing, while the porch is covered with corrugated metal and terracotta ridges. The walls are smooth rendered.

Windows throughout are square-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding sashes with concrete sills; metal casements are fitted to the west elevation. The principal elevation faces east and comprises a central replacement timber glazed door with sidelights, flanked on the left by a single window and on the right by two windows, with three dormers at first floor level. The south elevation is blank. The west elevation, partially obscured by the porch, contains two windows at ground floor and a single window at first floor. The porch has a single window and a door opening to the north elevation. The north elevation is largely abutted by the outbuilding; its exposed section shows two windows at first floor. The attached outbuilding is lime-rendered brickwork with a vertically-sheeted door and window opening to the west.

The house retains some original features including internal timberwork and windows, though it is in poor repair. Despite its relatively late date, it retains attractive proportions and modest detailing, though it is not among the best examples of its type.

The property stands within a mature site enclosed by wrought-iron gates giving access to an enclosed garden to the east. Additional outbuildings include a single-bay single-storey rubble structure to the north; a multi-bay two-storey rubble stable block to the north-east with timber-framed openings at each floor, brick dressings, and carriage arches accessed by wrought-iron gates; a further single-storey rubble outbuilding to the east showing evidence of lime-render; and a cast-iron cow-tail handled water pump to the east.

The site has been occupied since at least the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1833, though the current house does not appear until the third edition of 1905-6. The outbuilding to the north was present on the 1833 map. Townland Valuation records show a house and offices valued at £7 7 shillings, occupied by James Johnston. Griffith's Valuation of 1858 valued the property at £6 10 shillings and 6 pence, also occupied by James Johnston in fee. Subsequent revisions noted house, offices and land valued at £7. In 1905 David Andrews became the occupier, leasing from Samuel Johnston, and became occupier in fee in 1906, though construction of the new house was not reflected in original sources at that time. Post-1933 valuation revisions recorded a property value of £9 10 shillings including outbuildings, with the house comprising two rooms, two small rooms, a kitchen, scullery and porch on the ground floor and three bedrooms and two small bedrooms on the first floor. David Andrews remained the occupier in fee. Field evidence suggests late-nineteenth or early twentieth-century construction with mid-twentieth-century alterations.