Culcrow Post Office, 190 Curragh Road, Aghadowey, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 4BU

A detached symmetrical one-and-a-half storey three bay house and single storey shop predating 1832 sitting at the junction of Bann Road, Curragh Road and facing down Glenkeen Road. Sitting perpendicular to the northwest is a single storey outbuilding. Natural slate roof with a modern rooflight to each slope, terracotta ridge tiles, replacement round metal gutters and downpipes; rendered chimney to each gable of house, brick chimney to SE gable; timber fascia board and boarded eaves. Walls primarily lined render with rusticated quoins. Attic window, set to central gablet, has segmental arch with moulded architrave; ground floor windows are square-headed with moulded architraves with exaggerated keystone, those to the house incorporate a bolection mould and pediment over. Square-headed doorcase with architrave of fluted pilasters, panelled frieze and moulded cornice; the shop door has a plain architrave with exaggerated keystone. The windows are generally replacement timber with top hung lights. The door screen and doors are uPVC. The front southwest elevation of the house is symmetrical with a window either side of the central door with dormer over. The roof steps down over the shop which sits to the southeast; the door is central with a single window to each side, that adjacent to the house is enlarged. The side northwest elevation is symmetrical with two uPVC windows to each floor. To the northwest is a blank gable of a single storey outbuilding which sits perpendicular to the main building: mainly corrugated iron roof (some corrugated asbestos and a section with no roof); pebble dashed rendered rubble and brick walling. Between the two buildings are a pair of wrought iron gates on timber gateposts. The rear northeast elevation projects in the centre with a 2 storey gabled extension, all walls are pebble dashed render. A uPVC window is set in the ground floor of this extension and blocked up windows are located in the two storey and single storey sections to the south. The set back rear extension is pebble dashed render; it has two windows to the first floor, a flat roofed extension to the ground floor which forms a porch over a recessed glazed door. The side southeast elevation steps down between the house and the shop, this wall has two arched windows to the attic which are original 2 paned timber. The single storey gable is blank. Setting: The buildings sit at the busy junction of Bann Road, Curragh Road and facing down Glenkeen Road over open countryside. To the rear is a car parking area bounded on the northwest by the single storey outbuilding with corrugated metal roof (collapsed to the NE), pebbledash rendered walls, 4 plank and one corrugated metal clad doors on the SE elevation. Schedule: Roof: fibre cement slates Walls: lined render Windows: replacement timber RWGs: metal.