The Old Rectory, (a.k.a Drummully Rectory), Annaghmore Glebe, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8FA

The Old Rectory, also known as Drummully Rectory, is a former rectory occupying a prominent elevated site at a sweeping bend in the Cavan Road, overlooking a large lough. Built between 1860 and 1879 (first cited as completed in 1872), it retains much of its original character and many internal and external features of interest, including a functioning cast-iron lever door-bell.

The building is a symmetrical one-and-a-half storey structure with three bays, aligned west to east on the north side of the Cavan Road. It has a half-hipped natural slate roof with lead flashing to the ridge. Two ashlar stone chimneys with moulded stone coping are positioned at the centre of the left and right bays; each carries four decorative octagonal chimney pots. A cast-iron skylight sits at the centre of the front pitch. The eaves project with ogee metal rainwater goods, beneath which runs a plain stone frieze and cornice. The walls are harled over a slightly advanced base course.

The principal elevation faces south. Windows are timber segmental-headed 2/2 (horizontally divided) sliding sashes without horns, with painted reveals and stone cills. At the centre is a four-panelled timber door set within a segmental-headed reveal, with modern obscurely glazed sidelights and a tripartite transom over. To the right of the door is the small cast-iron lever bell. Each side bay contains two windows sharing a cill.

The left gable features a 1/1 sliding sash with a cast-iron security grille at ground floor level. To the right is a narrow canted bay with a flat felted roof, containing windows to each side (the outer cheeks being narrower) with a continuous cill over a cement rendered base. The upper floor of this gable has two windows set to the apex. This gable is flush with and extends to include the right cheek of a rear return. The rear return extends from the centre of the rear pitch and has a uPVC top-hung casement window to its ground floor left. A high boundary wall extends further north from the right gable and contains a tongue-and-groove sheeted door at its extreme right.

The rear elevation is abutted to the central and right bays by the full-height return, and to the left bay by a single-storey addition that advances slightly beyond the return. Both are detailed as house with monopitched natural slate roofs. The exposed section of the main block rear is blank. All openings here are uPVC, with windows mimicking sashes. The north gable of the return has a door to the extreme left with a window directly to its right, a large window at centre, and a small window to the right. The extreme right end is abutted by a boiler house. The left cheek is abutted at ground floor by the addition; the exposed section is blank. The north face of the addition has a window to each side (the right window being narrower). A boundary wall abuts the addition to the extreme left. The left cheek is blank; the right cheek abuts the return. The boiler house abuts the right boundary wall to the rear and has a monopitched corrugated metal roof with walls detailed as house and tongue-and-groove sheeted openings. A recessed door at the extreme left provides access to the garden.

The right gable of the main block has two windows to each floor, those to the upper floor positioned closer together.

To the rear is a domestic yard enclosed by boundary walls (detailed as house) to each side and a two-storey outbuilding at the rear. The outbuilding has a pitched natural slate roof and lime rendered rubble stone walls. Its yard-facing (south) elevation has a door opening at centre with a 6/3 sliding sash window to its right. The upper floor has a ventilation slit. The rear elevation has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to ground floor right and a loading door above. The right gable has a large opening at ground floor (to garage) and two 6/3 sliding sash windows to the apex.

The building is prominently sited on an elevated position overlooking the lough, set within a large sloping garden and accessed by a curved driveway. It is recorded in the 1872 Valuation revision book as an unoccupied house, occupied two years later, and is explicitly captioned Drummully Rectory on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map.