15-19 Main Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AB

15-19 Main Street, Randalstown, is a two-storey rendered building of seven bays comprising a post office shop with domestic accommodation above. The building is recorded only.

The entrance elevation faces south and is roofed with synthetic slates in regular courses. Three chimneys of yellow brick feature moulded brick details to the stringcourse and cornice; the two left-hand chimneys each have three tall stoneware pots, while the right-hand chimney has none. The walling is rendered with roughcast wet dash finish, with smooth rendered rusticated quoins to the extremities and a projecting smooth rendered plinth. A projecting eaves course runs across the elevation. Cast iron gutters and downpipes are present throughout.

The first floor contains seven windows. These are modern rectangular timber small-paned fixed lights with top-hung vents, which represent later replacements for the original timber sliding sashes with full glazing bars. The windows have plain reveals and projecting painted stone or concrete cills.

At ground floor level, the arrangement from left to right is as follows. At the left-hand extremity is a shop front of modern timber construction, comprising a modern glazed and panelled door to the right of a nine-pane fixed light window, with a projecting varnished timber cill. To the right of this is the entrance to the house, also of modern timber construction. This comprises a modern rectangular timber panelled door with a top panel of radial leaded glazing, accompanied by a similarly glazed sidelight and fanlight, all set in rendered reveals. To the right of this is a second shop front of similar modern timber construction to the first, but handed in plan. At the extreme right is a rectangular vehicular entrance leading to the rear of the property, containing a large pair of sheeted timber doors set in a plain timber frame. The vehicular entranceway is surfaced in modern brick paving, with side walls of smooth cement render and a flat timber panelled ceiling.

The rear elevation is two-storeys with a projecting single-storey block to the right. The walls are rendered with a dry dash of white limestone chippings swept over a smooth rendered plinth, with a projecting concrete block and brick eaves course. The roof of the main block has synthetic slates in regular courses, four modern rooflights, and PVC gutter and downpipes. The single-storey projection has an asphalt roof with timber fascias.

The first floor of the main block features modern rectangular timber windows which are fixed lights with side-hung casements and top-hung vents. These have thin projecting concrete cills and plain reveals. Two modern rectangular flush timber doorways open from the first floor—the left one leading onto an external stairway, the right one leading onto the flat roof of the extension.

The rear elevation is detailed, from left to right, as follows: at the left-hand extremity is a rectangular opening through from the street with one window in the storey above; a break forward of the main façade with an external concrete stairway rendered as main walling, with modern steel railings and a log store below the steps; a doorway in the first floor leading onto the steps; three windows to the first floor with a door and window combined at the right-hand end. All first-floor windows are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with side-hung casements or top-hung vents, and doors are modern rectangular flush timber with glazed panels. The projecting single-storey extension features modern windows of similar character, including a large window with a plywood panel incorporated. Two doors open in the right-hand side—one of sheeted timber and one flush timber. To the right-hand extremity of the ground floor, beyond the extension, is a doorway containing a modern panelled door.

The building stands in the main street of the town, facing directly onto the pavement. It is abutted to the west by a public house and to the east by a building of no special interest. A pre-Second World War design telephone kiosk stands on the pavement immediately outside.

The rear yard comprises an area partly brick paved and partly tarmac with stone chippings. It is bounded on the west by a three-storey basalt rubble rear return of an adjacent public house. The north boundary is formed by a two-storey basalt rubble and brick dressed outbuilding with slated roof, PVC rainwater goods, an original timber sliding door, and original small-paned fixed lights with bottom-hung top vents. Projecting from this is a single-storey white painted rendered twentieth-century flat-roofed rendered block. The rear yard is bounded on the east by the return of the white flat-roofed block.