Ultimo House, 70 Urbal Road, Coagh, Cookstown, BT80 0DP

Ultimo House is a detached two-storey Victorian former farmhouse with attic, built around 1873, situated on Urbal Road near Coagh. The building is Grade B1 listed.

The main house is rectangular in plan, constructed with stone and dashed rendered walls beneath a pitched natural slate roof. It faces west towards the road. The front west elevation features unpainted render with painted quoins and plinth. The central entrance comprises a relatively wide square-headed door opening with sidelights, flanked by canted bay windows with two-over-two timber sash windows in horizontal proportions. Above the door is a heavy moulded timber cornice supported on ornate timber consoles, with a projecting moulded hood over the opening itself. The door is timber panelled with unusual brass ironmongery featuring a decorative Egyptian motif, and has a timber fanlight that is not glazed. The three upper-floor windows are segmental-headed two-over-two sashes with cut-stone sills and ornate painted hoods; the central window has sidelights. The bay windows are cut-stone with parapet roof detail. The eaves are moulded timber supported on paired moulded timber console brackets. Dense creeping plant growth covers most of the front elevation.

The south gable elevation is rendered with two windows to each floor similar to those on the front, plus two small one-over-two timber sash windows to the attic. A brick chimney rises at the apex. The north gable elevation is identical to the south. A two-storey return projects from the left side of the rear elevation, rendered with a single square-headed casement window to the upper floor. Painted quoins turn the corner from the front to the left side. The west rear elevation has dashed render with rendered plinth and a variety of window openings, some sash and some replacement, including a semi-circular headed stained glass window. The gable of the two-storey return, visible on this elevation, is blank dashed render. The north elevation of the two-storey return is dashed render with replacement door and window openings. A small lean-to projection is present to the rear. The roof is natural slate with deep overhanging timber eaves, moulded and supported on ornate paired console brackets. Two brick chimneystacks, one at the apex of each gable, each carry four clay pots. Rainwater goods are a mixture of cast-iron and uPVC. A solar water heating device has been fixed to the rear return.

The property includes associated farmyard and outbuildings. To the south of the yard is a single-storey modern garage of concrete block construction with pitched profiled metal roof. To the north is a two-storey workshop building on an east-west axis with coursed rubble walls and brick gables, natural slate roof. The south elevation features an external flight of cut-stone steps leading to a square-headed door opening to the right at upper level, a segmental-headed door with timber tongue-and-groove garage door to the left, and a square-headed door opening; all openings have red brick surrounds. Windows are square-headed uPVC. Windows to the north elevation are square-headed timber casement, with brick surrounds to upper windows only. Between the garage and main building is a carport. A mixture of stone and concrete block walls encloses the remainder of the yard. A cast-iron gate is set into the wall to the north of the yard.

The house sits well back from the road with an extensive lawn in front, which contains a tennis court. Boundaries are planted with mature trees. Gate piers are cast-iron, cylindrical with ball finials and moulding to the top; a six-bar iron gate hangs between them. The boundary to the road is wooden fence with a pedestrian gate and holding pen to one side. A high chain-link fence has been erected around the lawn. The front and side gardens contain lawns, mature trees, a variety of ornaments, and two gazebos.