42 Main Street, Carrickmore, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT79 9AY

An attached two-bay two-storey house built around 1830, located on the south side of Main Street in Carrickmore. The building is rectangular in plan with a single-storey lean-to addition to the rear (south-west).

The roof is pitched natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles, and there is a lime-rendered chimney serving the party wall. The walls are lime-rendered over rubble construction. Windows are square-headed timber-framed 2/2 sliding sash with painted sandstone sills throughout.

The principal elevation faces north-east. The central entrance contains double-leaf timber panelled doors with top glazed panels, surmounted by a single window at first floor level. The left bay contains a window at each floor, while the right bay contains a single casement window at ground floor. The south-east elevation is abutted at first floor by the neighbouring property at 44 Main Street, with an exposed blank section at ground floor level. The south-west elevation contains a single 6/6 sliding sash window at each floor on the left, while the right side is abutted at ground floor by the lean-to with corrugated metal roof; a small window opening exists at first floor. The west elevation is abutted by the adjacent property.

The house is directly accessed from the street to the north. To the south lies a small yard enclosed to the rear by a single-storey rendered garage. The external materials are natural slate roofing, rendered walling, timber windows, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The building is first clearly identifiable in Griffith's Valuation (1856–64) as being occupied by Charles Rafferty, leased from Sir John Stewart Bt, and valued at £1 10s. The Annual Revisions town plan shows the property initially divided into two separate units. By 1908, Charles Rafferty had become the lessor and both properties were vacant, each raised in value to £3. In 1912, John Rafferty became the owner and occupier. After 1934, GM Leonard occupied the property as a single house, shop, offices and yard, leased from Margaret Jane Rafferty, which was described as a 'parlour type shop' comprising a shop, kitchen and two rooms with five rooms upstairs. The value was then raised to £9 10s. The building retains its original form, proportions and materials with no significant alterations or modernisation.