Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/08/027

Address :
24 Backfarm Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone BT78 5QE

Townland:
Backfarm

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
Yes

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
120-10

IG Ref:
H3898 7545

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built c.1850, located on the south side of Backfarm Road. Rectangular on plan, facing east; windbreaker porch to east, bed outshot to west. Pitched corrugated iron roof, metal ridge caps, random rubble basalt chimneystacks to gable (cement rendered to south). Walling is random rubble (with traces of lime render). Windows are square-headed painted timber 2/2 sashes, stone sills. Principal (east) elevation has a rubble stone catslide windbreaker porch to centre flanked by single window to each end (that to left is a replacement casement). South gable is entirely abutted by outbuilding. Rear (west) elevation is blank, with catslide bed outshot projecting off-centre. North gable is blank with ghost mark of gabled outbuilding (with lower ridge, recently demolished). Setting The house is accessed via an earth drive, situated on overgrown site with numerous mature trees and shrubs to south, southeast, southwest and west. To south is an attached outbuilding, detailed as house with a square-headed entrance opening on east elevation, south gable is blank, west elevation is partly collapsed. Roof: corrugated iron Walling: Random rubbl Windows: timber RWG: None.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The building is first shown on the second edition OS map of 1854. Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 records a ‘house, offices and land’, which is valued at 15s. The occupier is James McCusker and the property is leased from Samuel Galbraith. Valuation Revisions do not show any significant changes, other than revisions to occupier name. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/6/34/1-4 - Ordnance Survey Maps (1833, 1854, 1905-6, 1936-7) 2. PRONI VAL/2/A/6/34 - Griffith’s Valuation Map (1858) 3. PRONI VAL/2/B/6/32A - Griffith’s Valuation (1858) 4. PRONI VAL/12/B/41/34A-F - Valuation Revisions (1860-1924)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A detached two-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built c.1850. This house is of the direct-entry plan form and some detail survives. Of local interest, but of a common type and not one of the best examples.

General Comments

Date of Survey

22 June 2009