Coagh Presbyterian Church, 30 Urbal Road, Coagh, Cookstown, BT80 0DW

Coagh Presbyterian Church is a restrained single-storey building of roughly square plan with rendered walls and a half-hipped slated roof. Built in the late 18th century, probably between 1760 and 1779 during the ministry of Reverend John McClelland (installed 1755, died 1798), it represents a late Georgian meeting house in the classical tradition. The congregation itself was established in 1708, with the first minister installed in 1711.

The main front elevation faces north-west towards the public road and is symmetrically composed. The walling is of smooth cement render, lined and blocked, with a slightly projecting plinth and painted quoins at the extremities and projecting cills. The roof is of Bangor blue slates in regular courses, incorporating four very small ventilators in a line near the top and another set of four near the bottom. Metal rainwater goods with half-round guttering return on the right-hand gable to a circular downpipe; guttering to the rear is moulded.

The main entrance is centrally placed, consisting of a rectangular timber panelled two-leaf door set in a moulded semi-circular headed opening with panelled pilasters and modern decorative wrought ironwork to the fanlight. It is approached by a flight of three sandstone steps and a modern ramp with steel railings. To each side of the entrance are two semi-circular headed windows. The windows are modern uPVC replacements subdivided to represent Georgian paned sashes. This loss of original timber sashed windows represents a significant diminishment of the building's architectural quality.

The north-east elevation is symmetrical and contains four windows similar in detail to those on the entrance front. A plain stringcourse runs at eaves level with no plinth. Above the stringcourse is a small ocular window. The south-west elevation is similar to the north-east but without stringcourse or ocular opening.

The south-east or rear elevation comprises the plain wall of the main block without quoins or plinth, but with a circular flanged iron pattress plate at the left-hand end. Two windows with recessed cills flank an almost central projecting lower gabled return. This projecting block, of similar materials to the main building, contains two modern rectangular windows on the south-west side and one similar window plus a doorway on the north-east side. To the right-hand end is a smaller lean-to roofed projection of similar materials with two modern windows in the main face and a doorway in the end.

The interior retains a box-pew arrangement of seating characteristic of the period but now uncommon, representing a significant survival of original fabric.

The building enjoys a pleasant setting within its own grounds forming an architectural set-piece of some charm. It is approached by a gravel driveway on axis with the main entrance from a wide gravel car park accessed via a gateway from the road. The driveway is flanked by lawns planted with mature trees and broadens immediately in front of the building. Concrete paved pathways run along each side of the building and across the rear, with a grassy graveyard beyond to the sides and rear. Memorials date mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The front boundary consists of plain modern iron railings on a low plinth wall of cement render with modern rubble stone square end piers and gate piers containing low modern gates.

The architectural quality and listing grade would have been higher had the original windows survived.