11 Pullans Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 2JZ

11 Pullans Road is a symmetrical two-storey three-bay detached farmhouse built around 1840, situated on the east side of Pullans Road southeast of Coleraine. The building is set on a large plot surrounded by farmland, with a modern agricultural yard to the northwest and early twentieth-century rendered farm buildings arranged around an informal rear yard.

The house has a rectangular plan with single-storey extensions to the east and west, a single-storey flat-roof porch, a two-storey lean-to extension, and a modern conservatory to the rear. The pitched natural slate roof features blue and black angled ridge tiles, bargeboards and pebbledash chimneystacks with stone caps to the gables. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods run along box eaves. The walls are pebbledash over a smooth rendered painted plinth with raised quoins.

The principal elevation faces north and is five openings wide at each floor. Windows are timber sash without horns: 6/3 panes to the first floor and 6/6 panes to the ground floor, all set in smooth rendered surrounds with projecting painted stone sills. At ground floor centre is the original recessed segmental-headed doorcase, the focal point of the composition. It comprises a four-panelled timber door flanked by fluted semi-engaged columns with barley-twist pedestals, volutes and ball finials. The doorcase is surmounted by a replacement transom with plain glazing and accessed via a concrete step. The sidelights are modern obscurely-glazed panels on painted brick.

The east gable is blank and abutted at ground floor by the single-storey extension, detailed to match the main house with a corrugated tin roof, modern up-and-over garage door to its east gable and a timber casement window to the south. The south (rear) elevation features a round-headed multi-paned timber sash stairwell window at centre over a projecting porch containing a modern glazed uPVC door. A slightly projecting left bay with catslide roof has an enlarged window opening at first floor over a modern plastic conservatory. The west gable has a diminutive window at first floor right, abutted by the single-storey extension at ground floor with artificial slate roof, three timber casement windows to the north elevation, and a large window opening and modern panelled-and-glazed timber door to the south, accessed via four steps laid with modern red tiles.

The front garden is bounded by mature trees to the north, a modern timber fence to the east, a rubblestone wall and hedge to the west, and a pebbledash wall with painted saddleback coping to the yard at the south. Access is via an original cast-iron latch gate on a square pier with pointed cap at the east gable. Simple concrete gate piers mark the northwest entrance. A concrete drive to the east leads to the informal rear yard.

The house is first recorded on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1849–53, shown with a long range of outbuildings attached to the side. Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64 records the occupier as James Moore, who leased the farm of over 106 acres from Sir Edward Macnaghten Baronet. In 1887 the farm passed to William Moore, and the 1901 census records him resident in the ten-room, first-class house with his sister Margaret. The farm subsequently passed to the Auld family in 1915, then to Alexander Thompson in 1951 and James Cochrane in 1952.

In the First General Revaluation of the 1930s, the accommodation comprised a cellar used as a milk room; on the ground floor: two receptions, a kitchen, pantry and coalhole; on the first floor: four bedrooms and a maid's bedroom; and on the second floor: two habitable but disused attics. The property was serviced by a pump in the yard, a dry closet, and was lit by oil lamps. In 1955 a new scullery was added, and a bathroom and WC installed together with hot and cold water and electric light. A modern single-storey extension was built on the western elevation in 1982.

Despite modern alterations and refurbishments, the house retains its original proportions, symmetrical composition and much traditional character. The architectural detailing of the front facade is largely intact, including the original fenestration and segmental-headed doorcase. The building represents a good example of its type and makes an important contribution to the character of the rural landscape of the district.