6 Springtown Road, Derrynascobe, Augher, Co Tyrone, BT77 0AE

Single storey, three structural bay, lobby entry, thatched vernacular house, with attached barn abutting southwest gable. Barn smaller in width and height than main building and at a slight angle to it. Corrugated metal roof. Walls of house smooth rendered and painted white. Walls of barn rendered by successive layers of whitewash and reveal trace of stone construction behind. Unrendered brick entrance porch projection with flat roof in centre of façade. Sheeted entrance door with square window. Single window lighting each bay on each side of house. Window to kitchen on front (north west) elevation slightly enlarged to house a metal casement window. Other windows all two pane sliding sash. Stone cills are painted and the same colour is carried around the windows on an unadorned render architrave. Timber lintels to the rear south west elevation are exposed, unpainted and in need of replacement. Single chimney on ridge in line with side of entrance door in modern red brick with concrete flaunching onto thatch. End gables of building carried up side of thatch. Tops exposed and weathered. Deep build up of thatch at eaves approximately 500mm. Crisscross hazel ligger form a stitching pattern at eaves level on thatch with top and bottom line. No pattern at ridge. Roof currently scallop thatched with wheat straw. Flush painted timber door into barn immediately adjacent to front façade of house. Sheugh along rear of house separating building from the nearby road three metres approximately above its floor level. 450mm wide base of sheugh cemented behind house, muddy behind barn. Steep entrance road to farmyard drops along northeast gable of house. Small single pane window lights attic. The house is situated at a curve in the Springtown Road. It is located below it and facing away from it. There are two entrances from the road. The steep one described above forms the north eastern boundary and carries on down the hill to the farm beyond. A second entrance carrying on from the line of the road as it reaches the corner drops more gently to the farmyard. This goes between the house barn and a lower row of metal roofed barns. An out building perpendicular to the house forms one side of a simple courtyard directly in front of the building.