Vernacular house, Drumnasreane, Garrison, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, BT93 4FB

This is a mid-to-late 19th-century vernacular house and outbuilding located on the north side of the road in Drumnasreane, near Garrison, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. The house is a single-story, three-bay dwelling with a front garden. It faces south.

The main elevation features a pitched corrugated metal roof with concrete skews and modern cement-rendered, coped chimneys, one on either side of the central bay. Significantly, the original thatch roof and structure survives beneath the later metal roofing. A modern eaves board carries half-round plastic rainwater goods. The walls are rendered over rubble stone. The wall head at the rear has been built up in shuttered concrete, while the front wall head is rendered as the main wall. The central bay contains a timber-sheeted entrance door with an iron cottage latch, set within a stone base. To the right of the door is a single modern top-hung casement window set in an original opening with a painted, irregularly-dressed stone cill. There are similar windows in the remaining bays. The left and right gables are blank. The rear elevation features a tongue-and-groove (t+g) sheeted, painted timber door in the central bay, with the other bays blank. Access is via a lane from the road, and the house has a raised front garden.

To the rear (north) of the house is a single-story, single-bay rubble stone outhouse with a pitched corrugated metal roof. To the right (east) is a concrete block-work latrine, also with a corrugated metal roof.

The building first appears on the 3rd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1905. It is not listed in rateable valuation books from the 19th century. Its construction date is estimated to be between 1860 and 1879. The listing covers both the house and the outbuilding, and recognises the building’s thatched appearance, vernacular style, proportions, plan form, quality, survival of interior features, and setting. It also holds local historical interest.