Garden Cottage, at Favor Royal House, Favour Royal Road, Augher, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT77 OEW

Garden Cottage at Favour Royal House

Garden Cottage stands to the southeast of the main house at Favour Royal, a Tudor Manorial Style house built in 1825. The cottage itself is a single-storey building, three bays wide, facing east. Its walls are rendered random rubble. Each of the three bays differs in scale and design and has its own separate pitched natural slate roof; the left bay is notably shallower than the other two. A circular tower abuts the central bay to the rear. The detailing of the left bay appears to be of later date than the other two bays.

The left bay has a red brick chimney at its left end. Its front elevation features a 2/2 sliding sash window with horns set in brick reveals.

The central bay rises one and a half storeys high with a pitched natural slate roof featuring deep overhanging eaves supported on pairs of decorative timber brackets. Two red brick chimneys project from the front right; one is set at an angle to the front elevation. The front elevation has a pair of 4/4 sliding sashes set in a flush stone architrave (matching those to the main house). The exposed part of its left gable contains a 4/4 exposed box sliding sash window. The exposed portion of its right gable has a window opening to the right of the central chimney breast, though the window itself is now missing.

The right bay has a pitched natural slate roof which cat slides as a porch, with timber eaves to the front supported on two plain tapering stone columns. Below the porch is a canted bay window with brick dressings and stone cill. The front window is missing, but the cheeks retain 4/4 sliding sashes. The left gable of the cottage is blank.

The rear elevation of the left bay has a small narrow and damaged lattice window at its right end. The central bay features a pair of narrow timber doors, each with six glazed panels, with a moulded cornice (possibly salvaged from elsewhere) above. The right gable, forming a party wall with the right bay, contains a two-storey round tower with a leaded conical roof and rendered brick walls. This tower has narrow lattice arrow-loop windows at various levels. The left bay has a 2/2 (vertically divided) window set to the left and a tongue-and-groove sheeted door (now collapsed) to the right. The right gable of the cottage has a large window opening to the centre (window now gone). To its right, on the cheek of the rear lean-to, is a smaller window with a lead lattice casement.

Outside the cottage, leaning against its right gable, is a sandstone plaque with a moulded architrave. The central panel is raised and fielded. The inscription is quite long and mostly illegible, though it begins: "This house built by Order of / Grand Jury at Omagh 1732 /" and mentions "W. Edwards Overseer…"

To the front of the cottage, the hillside steps down in a number of man-made terraces towards the main house.