Brookend House, 16 Brookend Road, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT71 5BR

Brookend House is a detached two-storey L-shaped farmhouse built around 1830, situated in countryside near Dungannon. The house retains its original form but has been compromised by exterior alterations and loss of interior features.

The main front southeast elevation is rendered with dashed paint finish and features a central projecting gable-fronted porch with a slate roof, timber trellis sides, and a round-arched opening. The front door is a modern square-headed uPVC replacement. On either side of the porch are square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills containing modern paired one-over-one timber sash windows, with similar but shorter proportions on the upper storey. A smaller central window sits above the porch. Photographs show these windows date from 1907 to 1915 and replaced earlier sash windows with smaller panes. A corbel course runs below the eaves. To the right, a single-storey extension has similar windows.

The southwest side elevation comprises the gable of the main house and the side of the two-storey return, with a variety of window openings all containing one-over-one timber sash windows and a chimney at the gable apex. The northwest rear elevation has two square-headed door openings with timber tongue and groove doors, matching window treatments as elsewhere, and a string course similar to the front. The northeast gable side elevation of the single-storey bay is blank. The northeast side elevation of the return has a single door and windows in the same style. A timber pergola is attached to the rear elevations of the main house and return.

External walls are cement wetdash throughout. The pitched slate roof has chimneys with two clay pots each to both gables of the main house and a third on the return. Rainwater goods are cast-iron with traditional eaves detail and no fascia.

The long return was originally a stable block, raised to two storeys in the early twentieth century. An enclosed yard is formed by the L-shaped house, with a single-storey gable-ended outbuilding with pitched slate roof to the northeastern side, featuring three square-headed timber tongue and groove door openings facing into the yard. To the north is a farmyard with assorted agricultural buildings. South of the house stand a mill pond and mill building, both in poor condition.

Valuation records show a house matching the present building on the 1833–34 Ordnance Survey map, recorded in 1834 as an old thatched dwelling occupied by Reverend Bernard O'Neill, possibly the local Roman Catholic curate. The 1834 valuation lists dimensions of 62 feet by 22 by 9 feet, with outbuildings of 18 by 16½ by 5½ feet and 47 by 20 by 7 feet, the whole property rated at £3–8–0. By 1859, St. George Wilcox Esq. occupied the property as tenant of John Mackey, with rateable value increased to £6–10–0. Thomas McCormick is recorded as resident in 1872, with rateable value almost doubled to £12, suggesting the present two-storey dwelling was built in or shortly before 1872. Andrew McCormick took on the lease in 1914 and acquired the freehold sometime between 1929 and 1935, remaining in residence until at least 1957.

The house is accessed via cast-iron gate from a long shared lane and is set in countryside with a small front lawn surrounded by hedging.