Ultimo House, 16 Ballymoyle Road, Cookstown, Co Londonderry, BT80 0AD

Ultimo House is a detached two-and-a-half-storey dwelling located at 16 Ballymoyle Road, Cookstown. Built in the early twentieth century, it is roughly rectangular in plan with a two-storey return to the rear.

The front southeast elevation is symmetrical and three windows in width. A central doorway on the ground floor is flanked by projecting canted bays on each side. The doorway has a segmental head with plain pilasters to each side, which are decorated with carved console brackets supporting a projecting carved stone cornice. The door itself is timber with timber and glazed side panels, set on three cut-stone steps. The ground floor bay windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash frames set on unpainted cut-stone sills, with projecting carved stone cornices at their tops. The first floor has segmental-headed windows with carved stone surrounds, also 1/1 timber sliding sash set on cut-stone sills.

The side southwest and northeast elevations are gable-ended. The ground floor has square-headed windows, whilst the first floor windows are segmental-headed. The attic level contains two small square-headed windows set on cut-stone sills. A continuous projecting carved stone string course runs at eaves level. The rear northwest elevation displays an assortment of square-headed and segmental-headed timber sliding sash frames in both 2/2 and 1/1 configurations. The external walls are unpainted render with quoin stones to the corners; the ground floor has banded rusticated render. The pitched roof is finished in natural slate with clay ridge tiles. Paired eaves brackets support cast iron guttering. Two polychromatic brick chimneys rise from the roof, one at each gable. Rainwater goods are replacement uPVC.

The two-storey rear return features an assortment of square-headed timber sliding sash frames with no openings to the gable-end. Its pitched roof is slated with a rooflight and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Several outbuildings are associated with the property. A single-storey rubble stone structure to the rear is partially rendered with square-headed timber casement windows and door, under a pitched slate roof with two plain rendered chimneys. A single-storey lean-to is attached to the south. A large concrete shed with pitched metal roof stands to the north. A further two-storey rubble stone building to the northwest has a gable-ended northwest elevation with a square-headed door at first floor level; its southeast elevation is gable-ended and partially obscured by a rendered lean-to addition. The northeast elevation has a large timber sheeted barn door to the right with square-headed openings to the left, whilst the southwest elevation contains square-headed ground floor openings.

A building is recorded on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1832 and subsequently on all later maps. The present dwelling appears on the 1904–06 Ordnance Survey map and is marked 'Ultimo House'. Historic valuation records do not indicate when the building was actually constructed, though its appearance suggests a date of around 1890. A house of the same name and similar but not identical design exists in nearby Coagh, built in 1879. Ultimo House may have been built by the Ekin (or Aiken) family, who occupied the previous house on the site. After 1935 it was noted as the home of Matthew Henry, and after 1953 as the home of William and John Henry. The survival of what may be the original farmhouse is of some interest.