Hanover House, 24 Hanover Square, Coagh, Cookstown, Co Tyrone, BT80 0EF

Hanover House is a two-storey five-bay house built around 1810, now in use as a restaurant and shop. It is constructed of coursed rubble with brick detailing and a pitched fibre cement slate roof, facing northeast onto Hanover Square with a low stone wall and iron railing enclosing the front garden.

The main building is rectangular in plan with an attic storey. To the left of the rear is a two-storey gable-ended return, and to the southeast extends into Number 22, a single-storey five-bay building in line with the front. Behind and parallel to the main house stands a second building, possibly an original outbuilding, of the same form and proportions, which has been extensively renovated. A two-storey modern brick return extends to the rear of this building and connects with a further stone building. To the southwest corner is a single-storey garage-type stone outbuilding with a segmental-headed opening.

The northeast front elevation is built of coursed rubble with extensive but controlled ivy growth. The central feature is a semi-circular headed door opening with a painted moulded timber surround comprising pilasters and a cornice, from which a moulded arch springs over the fanlight. Above this is a stringcourse of red brick voussoirs. The door itself is square-headed timber panelled with a fanlight. Modern period-style electric lamps flank the entrance. The windows are six-over-six timber sash with painted cut-stone sills and red brick surrounds: two to each side of the doorway at ground floor and five more to the first floor directly above.

The northwest gable elevation is unpainted render at attic level and coursed rubble below, extensively ivy-covered. The attic has two small one-over-one timber sash windows with brick surrounds and unpainted cut-stone sills. Ground and first floor each have one six-over-six timber sash window without surrounds; the lower window is protected by a metal grille. The two-storey return along this elevation is coursed rubble with a square-headed door opening containing a timber tongue-and-grooved sheeted door, a square-headed casement window with grille at ground floor, and two six-over-six timber sash windows above. An ivy-covered stone wall extends to the right of this return, connecting to the parallel rear building and containing a similar door opening.

The parallel block to the rear has original stonework to its gable and has been extensively rebuilt in stone to its front southwest elevation with new semi-circular headed door openings and modern uPVC windows.

Number 22, single-storey coursed rubble with pitched slate roof, extends to the southeast in line with Number 24. Its front northeast elevation has a central semi-circular headed door opening—a replacement double timber panelled door with fanlight, accessed via three cut-stone steps—and two square-headed window openings to each side with replacement timber windows, painted cut-stone sills and replacement brick surrounds. The stone gable is blank and partially rebuilt.

External walls throughout are generally coursed rubble with brick detailing; some areas feature unpainted render and part of the rear extension is brown brick. The roof uses fibre cement slate and pitched slate to the main house and two-storey return, with artificial slate on extended and renovated areas. There are three ornate brick chimneystacks to the main roof—one at the apex of each gable and one at the centre of the ridge—and another on the gable of the main return, each topped with a pair of ornate clay pots. Rainwater goods are a mixture of cast-iron and plastic.

Number 22 sits slightly higher than Number 24, a stone wall and two steps in the garden marking the transition. The building is set back in line with other buildings on the southwest side of Hanover Square. To the rear lies a complex of returns, extensions and outbuildings with a yard accessed by a lane to the northwest of the complex. The neighbours are mostly two-storey houses.