Edenvale House, 9 Slate Quarry Road, Pomeroy, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT70 2RF

Edenvale House is a good example of an early nineteenth-century vernacular farmhouse and yard. Built around 1840, its survival is unusual, and although there are minor alterations to some window openings, it appears to be in substantially original condition with proportions and detailing well preserved. The surviving outbuildings are substantially intact and add much to the group value and the original setting. If further investigation reveals an unaltered interior, the grading may be uplifted.

The house is a detached two-storey structure with a long rectangular plan. It features a single-storey lean-to return to the rear west and a further single-storey lean-to to the north gable. The rear of the building faces onto a yard enclosed by an assortment of outbuildings, accessed via a gate to the north.

The external walls are painted and whitewashed render over rubble stone, exposed in areas. The roof is pitched with natural slate and has three brick chimneys to the ridgeline. The two gable chimneys have carved stone capping and decorative octagonal double chimney pots. Rainwater goods are cast iron.

The front east elevation faces onto Slate Quarry Road and is four windows in width. A square-headed door to the ground floor has a painted timber sheeted door with a door knocker and knob, surmounted by a five-light overlight, and is set on a cut-stone step. The windows to the first bay on the left are replacement timber casements at ground and first floor, possibly dating from around 1970, set on concrete sills. The remaining ground-floor windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash, while the first-floor windows are 3/6 timber sliding sash. All sliding sash windows are set on painted cut-stone sills.

The side north elevation is largely obscured by the single-storey lean-to at ground-floor level. There is a square-headed window opening to the first floor and a brick chimney to the apex of the gable. The side south elevation is gable-ended with no openings and a chimney to the apex. The rear west elevation has an assortment of timber sliding sash and replacement timber casement windows, with the single-storey lean-to located at the centre.

The rear lean-to has a square-headed door with simple painted timber sheeting on its north elevation and a timber casement window on its west elevation. Its roof is natural slate. The north lean-to is obscured by the yard entrance pillars and overgrown foliage, with no visible openings, and has a natural slate roof.

The two-storey barn located to the rear of the house facing the rear yard has an east elevation with an assortment of openings. The ground floor comprises a square-headed timber sheeted door to the left, an elliptical-headed coach arch with brick voussoirs and a simple wrought-iron gate, a further square-headed timber sheeted door, an external stair to the right of block and cut-stone construction leading to a doorway at first floor, and a panelled timber door beyond. The first-floor doorway is square-headed with a painted timber sheeted door. The south elevation is directly abutting the single-storey outbuilding. The north and west elevations were not visible. The external walls are painted and whitewashed render over rubble. The roof is pitched with corrugated metal to the left and slate to the right.

The single-storey outbuilding abutting the barn to the south has an elliptical-headed coach arch to the right and a pitched roof with natural slate. A further single-storey modern shed is located to the north of the rear yard adjacent to the road entrance, directly abutting the two-storey barn. It has square-headed uPVC windows, walls of skimmed render, a chimney to the north, and a pitched roof with corrugated metal.

The house is situated on the west side of Slate Quarry Road within the townland of Edendoit, with a corn mill located immediately opposite. The house is set behind a low hedge and rubble stone wall adjacent to the road. A gate to the front entrance has slim cut-stone pillars chamfered to the edges with pyramidal-shaped tops. The rear yard is accessed via a short laneway from Slate Quarry Road leading from the north, bounded by a painted stone wall with rounded pillars and a galvanised metal gate. The mill opposite is now ruinous and largely disappeared.

A building was shown on site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833-34 but was not recorded in the valuation of 1835. The property as it stands today probably dates from the 1840s and is marked on the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1853-57 as Edenvale House. In the second valuation of 1858, James Crowthers is noted as the occupant with a rateable value of £11, which included a corn mill to the east. This rose to £15 in 1862 following the addition of a new office, but was reduced to £13 in 1886 as there was very little business with the mill. James Crowthers acquired the freehold in 1880. In 1899 the house was leased to William Brown, and a member of the Brown family was still holding it in 1957.