Outbuildings, 221 Loughan Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1UD

An L-shaped block of two-storey outbuildings built circa 1860 and located on the west side of Loughan Road south of Coleraine. These blackstone structures formerly belonged to Cooldaragh House, now demolished. The outbuildings are arranged around a concrete courtyard and display high-quality stonework and detailing that provides important evidence of the quality of the nineteenth-century Cooldaragh House estate.

The L-shaped block is aligned west-east with a perpendicular wing projecting to the south. A single-storey extension housing modern garages abuts the south gable. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with blue and black angled ridge tiles and features a large red brick chimney stack. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods are mounted on a cut brick eaves course with cast-iron downpipes and hoppers.

The walls are constructed in coursed squared blackstone with red-brick dressings. Windows are replacement timber casements set in red-brick stepped surrounds with projecting stone sills; those on the first floor are diminished in size. The south elevation contains three first-floor windows and a pointed segmental-headed timber-sheeted loading door with a gablet above. The ground floor has two modern timber casement windows and two sets of pointed-headed double-leaf timber-sheeted doors. The west gable features a pointed-headed window to the centre at first-floor level. The north elevation displays a window and timber-sheeted loading door with gablet above at first-floor right, and a window to ground-floor right. A gabled bay at the left has a blank oculus to the apex of the gable with a decorative red-brick surround, and two pointed-headed windows at first-floor level. The east elevation is partially concealed by overgrowth; the right bay has a window to first-floor left above two ground-floor windows, while the left bay has a window at first-floor right. The south gable is abutted by the single-storey extension, which has been converted at its west elevation to accommodate two modern up-and-over garage doors. The west elevation of the projecting wing to the south is detailed as the south elevation, with two windows at ground and first-floor levels. To the re-entrant angle at the left is a gableted bay containing an oculus above a large pointed-headed opening at ground level.

The yard is laid with concrete and enclosed to the west by a blackstone wall with red-brick saddleback coping, and to the south by a single-storey former outbuilding open at the north with a natural slate roof supported on steel columns. A decorative pointed-headed cast-iron latch-gate is set into the west wall. The yard is accessed at the north via replacement wrought-iron gates on large square blackstone piers with chamfered corners, red-brick dressings and pointed caps. Access from Loughan Road to the east is via a tarmacadamed drive with modern timber fence and cattle grid at the entrance.

Cooldaragh House was built in 1862–1863 and first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1904 as a dwelling house with outbuildings arranged around a stable courtyard. The main house was built by Butler Mildmay Giveen, a Captain in the 10th Hussars, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of the County, who expended £8,000 on construction. The house was in progress in 1862 and entered valuation records in 1864 as a "very fine house" valued at £70 on a plot of over 69 acres. The property passed to Robert Hugh Giveen in 1891 following his father's death. The 1901 census records Robert Giveen resident in the 27-room, first-class house with his wife, two young children, his mother-in-law and two domestic servants—a cook and a nurse. The house appeared empty at the time of the 1911 census, with Robert H. Giveen residing temporarily in Buncrana and attempting unsuccessfully to let Cooldaragh. The First General Revaluation of the 1930s records Robert Giveen still resident in the "well-built, substantial country mansion."

A memoir written by the daughter of a former housekeeper provides detailed recollections of life at Cooldaragh in the post-war years. The estate included extensive gardens with a Christmas tree plantation from which the Giveens selected their own tree annually, and ponies that were retirees from peat carting. The main hall displayed muskets and crude-handled knives hung by Mrs. Giveen's grandfather who had fought against Native Americans. Mrs. Giveen's private lounge was furnished with Louis Quinze chairs and settees. The service wing was connected to the main body by a long red-tiled corridor; by the 1950s the servants' bedrooms were largely unoccupied. At that period the house had no running water or electricity, relying on oil lamps and candles for lighting, with water collected from a pump and rain butts, and buckets filled each morning and placed beside a peat-fuelled range.

The outbuildings were listed in 1977. The main house itself was demolished around 1970.