26 Carrigans Road, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, BT78 4EQ

Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1830, located to the east side of Carrigans Road, at corner of Reaghan Road. Direct-entry rectangular plan with single-storey gabled porch to north. Roof is pitched natural slate with blue/black clay ridge tiles; yellow brick corbelled chimneys. Walls are roughcast lime rendered with corbelled eaves. Windows are timber framed 6/6 sliding sash with exposed sash boxes; all have sandstone sills. Principal elevation faces north; each bay contains single window; bay three contains single window at left; abutted at right by gabled porch with decorative timber bargeboard containing square-headed vertically-sheeted timber door with glazed panel. East gable is blank. South elevation contains, from left, bay one contains small casement window with iron grill; bay two contains replacement square-headed vertically-sheeted timber door with original stone lintel at left with single 2/2 sliding sash window to right; bay three contains single 2/2 sliding sash window; bay four contains large square-headed opening; vertically-sheeted timber door with louvred panel. West gable is blank. Setting:- House is overgrown to north with enclosed mature garden bounded by hedging and accessed through wrought-iron gate to east. The house is set within enclosed farmyard with a range of outbuildings to the south and east. All are of rubble construction with timber framed windows and doors surmounted by stone lintels. Two-storey outbuilding to east has pitched natural slate roof; rubble steps with sandstone treads to loading door at first floor. Single-storey L-shaped range to south-east has pitched corrugated metal roof (slate to northern section); partially lime rendered and whitened; southern section has been partially demolished. Rubble boundary wall continues to south to group of three attached single-storey buildings; left and right have pitched natural slate roof; centre building has corrugated metal roof; those to left each contain large opening; that to right (west) has central door opening flanked by window openings, suggesting this may have been a dwelling originally. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Rendered Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron