11 Loy Street, Cookstown, Co Tyrone, BT80 8PZ

Detached two-storey former house and doctor's surgery, built around 1804, now in use as a funeral director's premises. This is a well-composed example of a modest late-Georgian town house. Although the significant loss of original detail and the degradation of its setting through the removal of the original garden features mean it does not merit statutory listing, the building still contributes to the historic character and appearance of the area.

The building is roughly rectangular in plan, with a two-storey lean-to return to the rear on the west side. A further single-storey extension with a pitched and hipped roof was added to the rear on the northwest around 1990. There is also a single-storey lean-to extension to the rear with a metal roof. The external walls of the main house are painted roughcast render with chamfered painted stone quoins to the front elevation. The roof is natural slate with extruded aluminium rainwater goods. The replacement chimneystacks are brick with profiled stepped cappings.

The front east elevation faces onto Loy Street. At ground-floor level, the central doorway is flanked by a window to each side. The doorway is semi-circular-headed, with carved stone pilasters to each side supporting a carved entablature and surround, and a radial fanlight with a carved stone keystone above. The door is approached by two ceramic-tiled steps. The windows throughout are replacement square-headed uPVC units with painted cut-stone sills, repeated at first-floor level. Both the south and north side elevations are gable-ended, each with an assortment of replacement uPVC windows and a brick chimney at the apex. The rear west elevation also has replacement uPVC windows. The building is set back from Loy Street, with a tarmac parking area to the front.

The two-storey rear return has replacement uPVC windows throughout, with the exception of a round-headed window to the west elevation, which retains a timber sliding sash frame. A square-headed door is located to the south of the lean-to. The return has an artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, and its walls are painted render.

The single-storey extension similarly has replacement uPVC windows, again with a round-headed window to the west elevation retaining a timber sliding sash frame, and a square-headed door to the south of the lean-to. It too has an artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and painted render walls.

A single-storey lean-to outbuilding has a square-headed garage door opening, a metal roof, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods.

The west side of Loy Street has a mixed building line. This building is set back from the road, creating a former front garden or yard space now finished in tarmac. The street is largely made up of three-storey houses alongside a church hall, a primary school, a technical college, and a church.

A building is shown on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833–34. When the first valuation was carried out in 1835, the house was serving as the manse for the neighbouring Presbyterian Church to the south, and is therefore probably contemporary with the church building itself, placing its construction at around 1804. It was recorded in 1835 as being occupied by a Reverend Thomas Miller, with the main portion measured at 40 feet by 27 by 22½ feet, a return of 12 by 7 by 5½ feet, and outbuildings measuring 28 by 17 by 14½ feet, 11½ by 17 by 9½ feet, and 12 by 12 by 6½ feet, with a rateable valuation of £13-14-5. By the second valuation of 1859, the property was specifically referred to as a manse, with Reverend Miller still in residence and the rateable value raised to £23.

Subsequent occupants included Reverend John P. Wilson from 1862, Reverend John Patterson from around 1881, Reverend Alan B. Cameron from around 1894, Reverend Alexander Simms from 1907, and Reverend David Maybin from 1912. The property remained in the possession of the church until 1929, when the congregation merged with that of Molesworth Street, previously known as Cookstown Third Presbyterian Church. The church itself was sold to the Church of Ireland parish of Derryloran and converted to a parish hall, while by 1936 the lease of the manse was recorded as belonging to an E. M. R. McIlwaine, with the property occupied by a Charles A. Wray. By 1938, a Dr D. M. Elliott is listed as tenant, with the Education Board of the Tyrone Presbytery as leaseholders; Dr Elliott appears to have used part of the building as a dispensary. Dr Thomas Lowry acquired the property outright in 1966 and was still in possession of it in 1972.