19 Ballynargan Road, Coagh, Cookstown, BT80 0DS

19 Ballynargan Road, Coagh

This is a Grade B2 listed detached farmhouse built around 1830, fronting onto Ballynargan Road on its west side. It is a good example of early 19th-century vernacular domestic architecture, pleasingly proportioned with a strong presence created by its formally composed front façade. The roadside setting is very well preserved, and recent alterations have maintained the building's vernacular character while accommodating modern needs.

The main building is two storeys tall, rectangular in plan with a two-storey return to the rear. To the south of the return sits a single-storey lean-to, while a single-storey garage stands on the south gable. A two-storey extension with a two-storey return to the rear has been added to the north gable. External walls are roughcast render, and the pitched roof is covered with slate. Two rendered chimneys with profiled stepped capping rise to the roof apex.

The front elevation faces east onto Ballynargan Road. At ground floor level, a central timber-panelled door with rectangular overlight is flanked by windows on each side, all with a rendered band around the doorway. The ground floor windows are square-headed timber sliding sash with margin panes, set on painted cut-stone sills. Upper floor windows are of the same type but reduced in height.

The south gable is partially obscured by the garage and has no further openings, with a plain rendered chimney at the apex. The north gable is fully obscured by the new extension. The rear west elevation has square-headed timber sliding sash windows with margin panes.

The rear two-storey return is gable-ended with a square-headed window at ground floor level in the west gable. The ground floor south side is partially obscured by a single-storey extension. The north elevation has no openings. A single-storey porch at the southwest corner has a chamfered corner with a square-headed door and a small window to the south.

The south single-storey return is built of rubble stone and comprises two sections. The east front elevation has a central window to each section: the right window has a smooth cut-stone surround, while the left has a red brick surround and sits on a red brick stall riser. Both windows are square-headed with diamond-patterned glazing. The south gable is unbroken. The west rear elevation has a large square-headed garage opening with red brick surrounds to the left, with a roof light on the west-sloping roof.

The house is set behind a small front garden bounded by a rubble and snecked stone wall with cut-stone capping. Two squared stone pillars at the centre, each with pyramidal cut-stone capping, support a simple painted wrought-iron gate. The wall continues north to meet the junction of the main house and new extension.

Historical records show a building on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1833–34, though it is difficult to trace further details through the valuations. The property may have been occupied by John Shaw and was rated at £3–10–0. It later passed to Mary Charleton (or Charlton) in 1883. John and Wallace Charlton acquired the freehold from the Conyngham estate at Springhill in 1906, and the building remained in Charlton family ownership until at least 1957. The house was possibly raised in height around 1900, though the complications in historical valuation records make this difficult to confirm with certainty.