Outer farm yard, at Favor Royal House, Favour Royal Road, Augher, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT77 OEW

Favor Royal demesne has a number of features of interest. Main entrance to Favor Royal Road has a single storey lodge on NW side of the Favour Royal Road, and on SE side are the main gates (both HB13/03/005), there are also two bridges (HB13/03/007 and HB13/03/026), the main house and yards (HB13/03/004), a garden cottage (HB13/03/008), a walled garden (HB13/03/012), a pigsty and a weigh house (HB13/03/025). Demesne is bounded to the N by the river Blackwater, to the E by the Derrymeen Road, to the S by the border with Co Monaghan, and to the W by the church of St. Mary’s Portclare, and to the NW by the Favour Royal Road. The main house itself is a middle sized Tudor Manorial Style building house built 1825. To NW of the weigh house, across the main drive are two ranges of outbuildings, first is N facing and the second, which abuts the E gable of the first, is NW facing. There is a large overgrown yard to front. All are derelict and roofless, constructed in rubble stone and plain, with undressed coach ways, doors and windows openings. Part of the N facing block has collapsed and part of NW facing block has a datestone with raised letters ‘1856’.