8 Main Street, Tullaghoge, Cookstown, BT80 8UA

A small mid-nineteenth century end-of-terrace two-storey house on Main Street, Tullaghoge, built around 1850. It is roughly square in plan with a gabled single-storey return to the rear and forms part of a terrace of three.

The south-eastern front elevation, which faces the street, is two windows in width. The ground floor contains a square-headed 6/6 timber sliding sash window set on a painted cut-stone sill to the left, and a square-headed doorway with replacement timber and glazed door and overlight to the right. The first floor has matching window openings. The north-eastern gable end elevation has no openings. The rear elevation has 6/6 timber sliding sash frames to both ground and first floor levels.

External walls are rendered in roughcast to the front and plain render to the side and rear elevations. The pitched and slated roof features a rendered chimney to the east gable and decorative ridge tiles. Rainwater goods throughout are replacement uPVC.

The single-storey return has a square-headed 3/6 timber sash frame and a pitched slate roof with random rubble walls. To the rear is a two-storey outbuilding, formerly pitched but now mono pitched. Its walls are random rubble, built up on the south face to form a lean-to roof, with a square-headed timber door facing the yard and metal sliding doors obscuring other openings.

The house and terrace are set back behind small gardens on Main Street, with an open yard to the rear accessed via a cast-iron gate to the north-east. The street comprises largely Victorian buildings of single and two-storey form.

The property appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1857 and is recorded in the 1859 valuation as home to Arabella McGeagh, leaseholder from the Loughry estate. From 1877 it was let to lodgers until 1893 when Alexander Bennison occupied it. Subsequent residents included John Shaw (1895), Thomas Harpur (1899), Robert Wylie (1905), and Mary A. Dilworth (1911), when the property was noted as containing a shop. Sarah Stewart resided there from 1913 to 1924, followed by Jane Anderson, whose family retained the property until at least 1972.