Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, 33 Urbal Road, Coagh, Cookstown, Co Tyrone

Note: This building was demolished in March 2008.

This was a two-storey inter-war rendered hall built in a neo-Georgian classical style. It stood within the village's built-up area, set back slightly from the public road on its own plot.

The main entrance faced south-east and opened onto a symmetrical three-bay front. Rusticated quoins of two-storey height marked the extremities, with a pair of Ionic pilasters rising from the ends of a slightly projecting surround to the main entrance on the ground floor. Short dentil cornices surmounted the quoins and pilasters, topped by four projecting blocks. A cornice to the parapet broke up in the centre bay to form an open pediment with a dentil cornice. The blocks over the pilasters were ornamented with an unusual stylised leaf design. The central field of the pediment contained a raised datestone and letters proclaiming "Coagh Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall AD 1920".

The walling was of smooth cement render with projecting plinth, stringcourses, and cornices. The main entrance held a rectangular timber sheeted door set in a segmental arched recess, with an original wrought iron expanding lattice-work grill gate across its face. Above on the first floor was a central segmental arched recess with a moulded surround and keystone, containing a pair of narrow sidelights in stop-chamfered reveals with what appeared to be fixed lights of two panes each. The outer bays each contained a window to each storey—rectangular timber divided into two fixed lights with plain glass and two top-hung vents filled with decorative leaded lights. The ground floor windows were partly boarded over.

The south-west elevation was of plain appearance in smooth cement render, lined and blocked, except for the end bay containing the frontispiece with two strips of rusticated quoins. Three three-light windows in the main hall block and one two-light window in a smaller rear block opened onto this side. Windows were of rectangular timber divided by mullions and transoms containing plain glass, with leaded lights to the top vents of the main hall.

The roofs were of hipped form but lacked any covering over the timbers. A circular metal ventilator or foul-air extractor sat on the ridge, and one chimney of smooth cement render stood between the main hall and rear block. A few sizeable cracks appeared in the walls. Guttering was of uPVC.

The rear or north-west elevation was of similar character to the south-west but with roughcast texture to the walling. Windows were of the same type and also included vertically hung sliding sash windows, one over one, with horns. Two smaller blocks projected from the rear wall: one with a parapet roof and the other with a corrugated iron lean-to roof.

The north-east elevation was of similar character and materials to the south-west but included an opening, now boarded over, into the main hall and one into the rear block. Windows in the main hall matched those on the south-west side; the rear block contained two timber sashed windows. Rainwater goods were of uPVC and cast iron.

The grounds were enclosed by cement rendered walls to the sides and rear, with a set of four original piers and wrought iron gates and railings across the front. The front part of the plot was laid with hard surface, now overgrown with grass, while the rear part was an overgrown garden with some trees.