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Silverbrook House is a seventeenth-century dwelling located in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The house survives as a significant example of domestic architecture from the post-medieval period, when substantial stone-built residences began to replace earlier timber-framed structures in Ulster. Its construction reflects the increasing prosperity and stability of the region during the early modern era, following the consolidation of English and Scottish settlement patterns.
The house stands on ground underlain by Argyll Group bedrock, comprising ancient psammite, semipelite and pelite deposits formed during the Neoproterozoic era. These metamorphic rocks, which underlie much of the region, would have been readily accessible as building stone to seventeenth-century masons working in the locality. The solid geological foundation has contributed to the building's survival and structural integrity across nearly four centuries.
Silverbrook House is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, Northern Ireland, under monument reference 14083. This statutory protection recognises its archaeological and architectural significance as a well-preserved example of seventeenth-century vernacular building practice in the Strabane area, providing material evidence of domestic life and construction techniques during this formative period of Ulster's post-medieval development.
Silver brook house. c17th house is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14083. View the official record →
Silverbrook House is a seventeenth-century dwelling located in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14083.
Silver brook house. c17th house dates from the post-med period, and is classified as a house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Silver brook house. c17th house is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 14083.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing stone & two stone circles (3 km), Stone circle (3.8 km), Killeen (4.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Silver brook house. c17th house's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Silver brook house. c17th house stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.