Cottage and Outbuildings at, 74 Alderwood Rd, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, BT75 0JG

This is an exceptional survival of a group of vernacular farm buildings, complete and without modern additions, in a particularly remote rural setting on the Tyrone/Fermanagh border in a large clearing near forestry land. The nearest town is Fivemiletown. The house is approached down a long, single-tracked lane and is screened from the approach by a single storey stone byre. In front of this is a large timber and corrugated iron turf house. To the rear is another stone-built byre with attached mud-walled shed. Also to the rear is a pig crew built from stone with a tiny open stone yard attached, with a good wrot iron gate in sufficiently good condition to restore. Further to the rear is a timber and corrugated iron hay shed. The house is single story, 3-bay, direct entry, stepping down the side of a hill. There is only one small window to the front elevation, giving a view of the approach, and three to the rear. There is an attic storey to the lower end. The house is finished in lime render. The windows are timber sliding sash and the roof like all the roofs to the entire group, is corrugated iron. All doors to all buildings are vertically sheeted tounged, grooved and V'd. The house's only external door is a traditional half-door. There is a cobbled drain to the lower side of the front of the house, presumably a handy way to carry slops away from the front door. .