47 Tirnony Road, Tirnony, Maghera, Co. Londonderry, BT46 5RE

A one and a half storey, four bay direct entry thatched house with whitened roughcast finish above a black base at the front. The house faces south-east with the gable overlooking Tirnony Road that travels in a north-westerly direction from Grillagh Road that intersects with the Maghera/Swatragh road just south of Grillagh Bridge about a mile and a half north of Maghera. The house is positioned three-quarters of a mile along Tirnony Road. The thatch covering is contained within raised parapet gables that each rise to a chimney stack with projecting flaunched capping. There is a similar feature above the position of the main hearth. The stacks are not provided with pots. Originally two dwellings the building has been converted to a single occupancy taking care to retain as much as possible of the layouts, roof structures and detailing. The larger unit to the right (north-east) is entered by means of a timber sheeted half door that is flanked to the right by two and to the left by one vertically sliding window with sashes divided into two horizontally. The frames are exposed, sash stops are moulded and sills are of intermediate depths at the leading faces. The gable to the roadside is without fenestration. The kitchen at the rear has been has been restored to complement the house by providing a pitched natural slate roof in place of the existing lean-to construction. The verges and the eaves are finished with brickwork as is the corbelled chimney. The entrance door is timber sheeted and the window matches the other types used throughout. Rainwater goods are of metal with the gutter on rise and fall brackets. There is pair of conservation type rooflights and the space between this unit and the main house is roofed with butyl The smaller left-hand unit has a timber ledged, braced and sheeted entrance door and a window to the left is of similar construction to those already described but is of increased width. A window of the usual type lights the upper bedroom in the left-hand gable and there is a small plain sashed window either side of the kitchen extension at the rear to light the shower room off the main bedroom in the right-hand part of the building and the bathroom in the left-hand part of the house.