14-20 Main Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim

A two-storey building, six windows wide to the first floor, with the entire ground floor presenting a broad modern shop front flanked each end by modern panelled doorways. Main entrance faces north. Roof slated, with three chimneys, two in modern red brick and one rendered. Wall to first floor is smooth cement rendered with rusticated quoins to extremities. Windows to first floor are modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents, set in square surrounds with keystones; projecting painted cills. Plaque on wall states "On this site stood the original market house erected in 1770 by Lord O'Neill. The building was destroyed by fire during the 1798 rebellion." Shop front woodwork incorporating panelled piers is all new replacement. SETTING: The building stands in the main street of the town, within a terrace, facing directly onto the pavement. In the first survey in 1971 the building was described as "A two-storey, six bay, terrace with lined rendered walls, raised quoins, slated roof and brick chimneys. Upper windows are set in square moulded openings. All windows are double hung with full glazing bars. The lower storey presents a double shop front with consoled fascia, a modernised shop front, a panelled street door with margined fanlight and a plain window in surround similar to upper storey."