62 Lindesayville Road, Tullyhogue, Cookstown, Co Tyrone, BT80 8UH

62 Lindesayville Road is a well-preserved, painted roughcast, one-and-a-half storey former foreman's cottage built around 1840, forming the end of terrace in the southern of two blocks of matching terraced houses on the north side of Lindesayville Road, to the south of Desertcreat, County Tyrone. It is one of eight matching houses in total and shares a group value with the adjacent terraces. The houses are designed in a picturesque vernacular style and are a rare survival as a recognisable form. They are well-composed and of modest scale, adding considerable variety and interest to their rural setting.

The building is rectangular in plan with a two-storey pitched return to the rear north-east. There is a further single-storey lean-to outbuilding to the rear, and a projecting single-storey entrance porch to the front. The external walls are finished in painted roughcast render. The roof is pitched, covered in natural slate, with overhanging eaves. The projecting central front porch is set within the overhang. There are full dormers to the roof, each fitted with small square-headed 1/1 timber sash windows and decorative curved timber fascias to the dormer gables. There is a rooflight to the rear elevation. A rendered chimney to the south-east has rounded brick chimney spouts. It appears the front section of roof was originally formed without guttering; short sections of uPVC guttering have since been added over each doorway, and all remaining rainwater goods are replacement uPVC.

The front south-west elevation faces onto Lindesayville Road. The projecting entrance porch has a square-headed timber sheeted door with an integral window, and retains a period painted door knocker, knob, and letterbox. To each side of the projecting porch there are single square-headed windows with 2/2 timber sliding sash frames set on painted cut-stone sills. The rear north-east elevation has a single 2/2 timber sliding sash window at ground floor level. The rendered two-storey pitched return has replacement uPVC windows set on painted concrete sills. A timber door opens from the south-eastern elevation, which has natural slate to the roof and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The south-east gable elevation has two windows to the first floor, matching those described above. The lean-to outbuilding is painted render with one large full-width opening to the south.

The terrace is set back from the road behind a long whitewashed stone wall, with single gate openings to each individual house. To the rear there is a concrete yard enclosed by a concrete wall to the west and a timber fence with integral gate to the east.

The two rows of cottages were built sometime between around 1835 and around 1857. Architectural historian Alistair Rowan states they were constructed by a Captain Daniell (or Daniel) of nearby Rock Lodge and considers them to date from around 1840. However, the houses stand on land that formed part of the Loughry estate, and their name, Lindesayville — which appears on the 1857 Ordnance Survey map — suggests that a member of the Lindesay family of Loughry was responsible for their construction. This may have been Frederick Lindesay, who lived at Rock Lodge from sometime between 1837 and 1846 until 1848. Whatever the precise origin, the two rows are recorded in the valuation of 1858 as "eight labourers houses, gardens and plantations," rated collectively at £13-15-0 for valuation purposes.

The north-western terrace was designed for labourers and, although externally it appeared to contain four dwellings, each was internally divided between two families, with each half containing its own entrance within the porch and its own stair. The south-western terrace, which includes this house, was arranged as it appears — four houses for four foremen and their families. Despite this arrangement, when occupants were first recorded by the valuers in 1864 there were thirteen in total, indicating that one of the foremen's dwellings was also being shared. The residents named in 1864 were Robert Cowan and Edward Quinn, Isabella Montague and Nancy Miller, Jonathan Browne and James McNeigh, Samuel Ferguson and Rose Cowan, and William Allen and Samuel Hannay (each pair occupying a house), with Peggy Browne, John McKane, and William McIntire residing in individual dwellings.

In 1896 the Loughry estate, including Lindesayville, was acquired by Cookstown businessman James Wilson Fleming. In 1908 Wilson sold the houses to Thomas A. Ekin, a Belfast Bank official of Rathcrogan house in Molesworth Road, Cookstown. After this, twelve rather than fourteen occupants are recorded, indicating that the foremen's cottages had reverted to single tenancies. By 1913 the residents are listed as Robert McKane, Samuel McKane, Robert Browne, Robert Mullan, Samuel McMenemy, William J. Campbell, James Hogshead, Thomas Williamson, Jonathan Taylor, Robert Wylie, Henry Douglas, and Samuel Stranaghan.

By 1935 the amalgamation of the labourers' cottages had begun, with both Robert Mullen and Thomas McKernon each taking possession of two properties; one was converted to a shop, which remained in use as such until the 1980s. The remaining two labourers' dwellings continued as double tenancies until the early 1970s, after which the process of amalgamation accelerated, and by 1984 all of the former labourers' houses had been amalgamated with consequent internal changes. In the 1990s, further alterations were carried out when three of these dwellings — originally containing six properties — were amalgamated again to form a single house with an integral garage. The former foremen's houses, of which this is one, have remained as four separate properties, although all have rear extensions dating from around the 1980s.