35 Ballynanny Road, Lisdoart, Ballygawley, BT70 2LZ

35 Ballynanny Road is a one and a half storey gable-ended house of pre-1834 construction, substantially refurbished in 1893. The property stands in rolling countryside approximately 3 kilometres southwest of Ballygawley, set 300 metres west of Ballynanny Road and surrounded by small irregular fields. The site is roughly square in plan, sloping from west to east and slightly from south to north. The house occupies the western boundary with a farmyard to the southeast and garden to the northeast. An open drainage ditch runs immediately behind the house and adjoining outhouses.

The eastern front elevation is asymmetrical, featuring single-storey canted bays with hipped roofs either side of a right-of-centre front door, above which sits a gabled half-dormer. The door has a painted moulded render surround with flat head. The northern gable, which rises above the adjoining outhouses, contains a single first-floor window opening to the left but is otherwise blank. The western rear façade is roughly symmetrical with an almost central gabled single-storey return. A small window opening appears to the left of the return and a wider opening to the right, with a squat flat-headed door to the right of the southern face. The northern and western faces of the return are blind. The southern façade is symmetrical with small window openings either side of the upper floor, the ground floor remaining blank. A small dilapidated timber greenhouse stands to the right side.

The main roof and that of the return are pitched; the canted bay roofs are hipped. The main roof and bay roofs are covered with natural slate, with diamond-shaped decorative slate patterns on the bay roofs. The return roof is covered with corrugated asbestos sheeting. Brick chimneystacks with corbelled caps and plain clay pots flank either side of the main roof. Shallow concrete-capped parapets run along the roof sides. The timber verges of the dormer gable are scalloped. Rainwater goods are predominantly cast-iron with some uPVC sections.

The front and gable walls are finished with pebbledash render, with plain cement-rendered moulded quoins bearing bevelled edges and naive decorative details. The western gable is decorated with smooth render bands in imitation of timber framing, and the exposed northern gable similarly but more plainly. The rear façade is finished with smooth ruled and lined render. Window openings are framed with smooth rendered bands featuring decorated keystones. Below the stone sills of upper-level windows is a decorative cement render apron. Window openings are framed with smooth rendered bands featuring decorated keystones. All windows except one are 1/1 timber sash; the rear right window has a Crittall-style steel frame. The front door is circa 1930s timber panelled with a glazed oval panel. The rear door is plain timber sheeted.

Attached to and set back on the north gable is a row of three adjoining outhouses, which reduce in height from south to north following the sloping ground. The southern outhouse has a central flat-headed door to the front and one rear window. The central outhouse contains two flat-headed doors (one far left, one central) with windows to the right of each (the left window smaller than the right), no rear openings. The northern outhouse leans against its southern neighbour's gable and has a flat-headed front door with a small square central window to the north, no western openings. Outhouses one and two have pitched roofs; number three is a lean-to. All are corrugated iron sheeted. Walls are whitewashed rubble with painted plinths. Doors are timber sheeted in stable-door arrangement. Window frames are a mixture of Crittall-style steel frames and fixed timber lights, with some openings blocked. The central outhouse was filled with chopped firewood; the others were locked.

Outbuilding One is a gabled rubble stone structure with a later concrete block lean-to attachment to the north containing a toilet. A central flat-headed door with timber stable door appears on the eastern face, with small louvered openings in each gable, walls otherwise blank. The lean-to has a western door. Main walls are whitewashed random rubble with painted plinth. Both structures are corrugated iron roofed. The toilet is plainly detailed with concrete floor and rendered walls; the main room was locked.

Outbuilding Two is a long low gabled range. The western gable contains a wide flat-headed opening with paired doors; the right side of the northern façade has a small square window. The eastern gable is blank. The southern face contains a wide flat-headed opening with paired doors to the right and a window opening to the left. Roof and walls are corrugated iron, supported on plain collar trusses and simple timber frame. The gravel-covered floor is supported on this frame. Window frames are timber.

Outbuilding Three is a tall hay shed with barrel-vaulted roof. A large vehicular sliding door appears left of centre on the western façade, with translucent panels either side of the upper level and a small window and door to the far right. The northern gable contains two high-level translucent panels. The southern gable and eastern rear face are blank. Corrugated cladding is supported on plain radial trusses and simple timber frame over a gravel floor.

Outbuilding Four is a low concrete block built range. A wide opening on the left side of the northern face is filled with a timber sheeted door and corrugated iron panel; a further wide opening to the right is used for storage. The roof is corrugated iron covered.

A small rubble stone outbuilding with lean-to corrugated iron roof and single timber sheeted door stands on the north boundary. The farmyard is now gravel-covered.