11 Geaglum Road, Derrycanon, Derrylin, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 9GN

11 Geaglum Road is a single storey, three bay thatched house with a hipped roof, built around 1900 in Derrycanon, County Fermanagh. The house faces north-east, occupying the south-west corner of a wooded site that borders a narrow roadway running south-easterly from the secondary road between Teemore and the Lisnaskea/Derrylin road, eventually finishing at a jetty opposite Crehan Island in Upper Lough Erne.

The building is constructed with timber framing, which was deliberately designed to reduce weight on the foundations. The original wall construction consisted of 8 inch wide vertical timber boarding edged and fixed, then lath covered. This has been superseded by plywood sheeting, also lathed, set above a projecting rendered concrete block base that rises to the top of window sill level. This concrete base was made necessary when the original lightweight construction failed, due to the site's proneness to flooding. The walls are whitened.

The hipped thatched roof features a chimney set off centre on the ridgeline, flaunched below an in situ capping. A flue pipe from the stove in the kitchen projects a short distance. There are two layers of scollops at the ridge and one at the eaves.

The entrance is at the front, composed of a timber sheeted door with a glazed panel in the upper part. It is flanked to the left (south-east) and right by two vertically sliding windows with sashes divided into two vertical panes, set in decorative surrounds with splayed tops. The sash stops are curved. There are no openings at the sides or rear. The windows are modern and the rainwater goods are plastic.

A timber lean-to scullery with a corrugated Perspex roof has been added at the rear. A separate store with a monopitched corrugated asbestos roof is positioned 1 metre away from the south-east gable, with a front entrance flanked on either side by a nine pane (3x3) window. The walls of the store are whitened and the entrance door is timber sheeted.

The original wall construction of timber laths and boarding survives with increased intervals between the laths, which is acceptable as it perpetuates the early timber construction that is rare and of considerable interest. The appearance of the rear extension detracts from the character of the house and could be improved.

The site appears as undeveloped bog land on the 1834 and 1857 Ordnance Survey maps and was recorded as such in the first and second valuations of circa 1835 and 1862. The owner states that the timber construction was intended to reduce weight on the foundations. A re-thatching scheme was carried out in 1993, started by Murty Cornyn and completed by another thatcher, with further re-thatching in 2000.