Coyle's Cottage, Annaghmore Road, Coagh, Co. Tyrone, BT80 0JA is a Grade B+ listed building in the Mid Ulster local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 21 May 1991.

Coyle's Cottage, Annaghmore Road, Coagh, Co. Tyrone, BT80 0JA

WRENN ID
ragged-casement-dale
Grade
B+
Local Planning Authority
Mid Ulster
Constituency
Mid Ulster MP: Mr Cathal Mallaghan (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
21 May 1991
Irish grid reference
H 957 787
Coordinates
54.64821, -6.51698
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

Coyle's Cottage is a single-storey, two-bay thatched house located in the rural community of Ardboe, approximately four miles east of Coagh village and less than half a mile from the western shore of Lough Neagh in County Tyrone. The building occupies a corner position where the Anneeter Road branches east from the Annaghmore Road.

The cottage is a virtually unaltered example of a two-room vernacular dwelling that retains its original roof timberwork. The house faces slightly north of west. The roof is thatched between plastered skews, with scallops at the ridge forming a herringbone pattern. A corbelled chimneystack rises from the right-hand gable. The entrance features a mock sheeted half door protected by a windbreak porch built as an extension of the thatch covering. Vertically sliding sash windows with single vertical division, exposed framing and moulded sash stops flank the entrance on the front elevation, with two similar windows on the rear. Both internal and external wall finishes are whitened plaster. A small corrugated iron clad shed stands beside the left-hand (north) gable.

The building is believed to have been originally constructed as a fisherman's dwelling. A structure shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858–59 matches the present building and is recorded in the near-contemporary second valuation of 1859, with occupant John Muldoon, lessor Archbishop Stuart, and a rateable value of 5 shillings. An earlier building appears on the 1832 map at this location, though its recorded parallelogram-like plan form does not match the present structure, suggesting the current building may predate 1858.

The cottage was acquired by the Muintirevlin Historical Society and restored in 1993 to serve as a small museum and meeting place. It was initially rethatched with reed harvested from Lough Neagh's shore, but due to the sulphate content of the reed, this proved short-lived and the roof was subsequently rethatched with imported material.

Local climate

Coyle's Cottage, Annaghmore Road, Coagh, Co. Tyrone, BT80 0JA receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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