94 Scraghy Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey, three-bay, direct entry house.

The house that faces north-west is set back a short distance on the south-east side of the road from Castlederg to Ederny about six and a half miles from the former town.

The corrugated iron roof covering oversails the gables and a chimneystack finished with a capping rises over each gable with a similar feature serving the kitchen hearth. Rainwater goods are of plastic.

The construction is of rubble stonework dressed with corner stones and finished with plaster or harling.

A windbreak porch with lean-to concrete slab roof protects the entrance served by a flush door with glazed panel in the upper part. To the right and left there is a timber-framed vertically sliding window with sashes divided into two panes horizontally and with curved sash stops. Beyond this at the extreme right there is a top-hung timber framed window. Sills are of traditional depths.

The right hand (south-west) gable is blank and there are two openings in the opposite (north-east) gable. At ground floor level the parlour gains light from a timber framed vertically sliding window with plain sashes, that at the bottom of increased size, and with square sash stops. Above a timber framed fixed window divided horizontally into two panes has curved sash stops. Sills are of traditional depths.

At the rear the bedroom projection has a similar window to the parlour, from which it is entered, but the sash stops are curved.

Outbuildings

There are two structures both of exposed stone outside and inside with a sawn roof structure supporting corrugated iron in the case of the larger building and relying on logs for the roof of the smaller building.

The larger building, set at an angle close to the dwelling exhibits two periods of construction. The door at the front is of timber sheeted with metal and two doors at the side nearest the house are flush. The space above the front door is sheeted with timber and a toilet of corrugated iron construction with a timber sheeted door extends on the left hand (north-east) side

The smaller building that probably saw use as a pigeon house is sited some distance away to the north. It has a ledged and plank door flanked to the right by a small aperture with a thin stone sill so placed for the convenience of birds.

Historical information

The buildings are not shown on the OS map of 1833 and an eastern branch of the road that proceeds northwards to Castlederg is continuous at this point.

By the time of the 1854 map the dwelling appears as a simple rectangle curtailing the road to Castlederg to the extent that it is no longer possible to use it as a carriageway.

References – Primary Sources

1. OS map, 1st edition 1833, Co. Tyrone, sheet 32
2. OS map, 1st revision 1854 Co. Tyrone, sheet 32

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Z. Rarity
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Located about six and a half miles south west of Castlederg, this is a single storey, three-bay, direct entry house. Dating from the first half of the 19th.C the original layout has been retained together with much of the detail.