8-12 Main Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AB

A two-storey building on Main Street, Randalstown, nine windows wide to the first floor. The main entrance façade faces north and is divided at ground floor into a public house and an off-licence, separated by a segmental arched main doorway, with a segmental open archway to the right-hand extremity serving as a vehicle entrance.

The roof is laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with dark toned ridge tiles. One chimney near the right-hand end is smooth cement rendered with a projecting base and plain projecting cornice. Cast iron guttering is fitted with PVC downpipes. The wall is smooth rendered, lined and blocked, with a projecting eaves course and timber eaves board.

First-floor windows are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents containing leaded glazing. Ground-floor fenestration and fittings, from left to right, comprise: the pub shop front with four panelled pilasters with moulded bases and capitals surmounted by a timber frieze with moulded dentil cornice and raised nail-head panels; to its left a rectangular timber fixed light with etched finish in plain reveals and recessed cill; to its right a modern rectangular timber 6-panel door in a plain frame with modern tiled doorstep. To the right of the pub front is an elliptically arched recessed doorway containing a rectangular timber 8-panel door recessed between plain timber pilasters with moulded capitals, flanked by rectangular sidelights with original decorative looped glazing. The fanlight above contains original radial and looped glazing. The archway has panelled reveals and soffit, with a recessed doorstep at lower level than the pavement and including an iron bootscraper to the right-hand side. Modern metal letterbox and door knocker are fitted. To the right of the arched doorway is an off-licence shop front of similar character to the pub-front but with three pilasters instead of four, incorporating a broad central one between window and door. A large modern timber fixed light is set in plain reveals with a projecting painted stone or concrete cill. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber 4-panel door with plain rectangular fanlight and plain reveals, with a cement doorstep. Antique-style painted metal lamps are mounted on the wall to each side of the off-licence front. To the right of the off-licence shop front is a single window, a rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent, set in plain reveals with a projecting painted concrete cill and moulded surround. At the extreme right-hand end is a segmental-arched vehicle entrance containing a recessed rectangular steel roller door set in a wooden frame with a rendered tympanum. Plain rendered reveals and soffit are present except for rusticated quoins of the adjacent building at the right-hand side. A moulded surround to the archway rises from a cement base block at the left-hand side. A plastic and metal pub sign is mounted on the wall over the archway. The vehicular entrance is surfaced with tarmac; the side walls are basalt rubble with what appears to be original lime mortar with some later cement repairs. The ceiling comprises modern plywood panels.

The rear elevation consists of the main two-storey front block with a long two-storey return at the right-hand side. The main block roof is synthetic slates in regular courses. The walling is rendered with a dry dash of white limestone chippings swept over a smooth rendered plinth; a timber eaves board and PVC gutter and downpipes are fitted. A later steel-framed balcony and external staircase are positioned to the left-hand side with a modern rectangular doorway and window at first floor level opening onto a concrete paved balcony. A canted bay to the right-hand side has a modern PVC door and windows to the first floor, with a rectangular flush timber glazed door and modern rectangular timber window to the ground floor. The rear return is of similar walling with similar rainwater goods and similar modern rectangular timber windows, fixed lights with side-hung casements and top-hung vents. The return has a flat roof, asphalt covered. The rear wall of the front block to the right of the rear return is one window wide to the first floor; the wall is smooth cement rendered, angled back at the right-hand extremity; synthetic slates clad the roof, also angled back at the right-hand extremity, with PVC gutter and downpipe. The ground floor contains a rear doorway from the front bar room leading into a rear alley, which is partly enclosed by a corrugated perspex roof. A flat-roofed single-storey extension extends beyond the rear alley.

The building stands in the main street within a terrace of buildings, facing directly onto the front pavement. At the rear is a tarmac yard between the main block and the return, with the tarmac driveway continuing to a larger rear yard surfaced in concrete, bounded on both sides by a basalt rubble wall and containing a small single-storey garage and funeral parlour block. A grassed garden is located at the end of the larger yard.