Northern Bank, 27 Main Street, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim, BT53 8SL

Northern Bank, 27 Main Street, Armoy

A relatively plain two-storey terrace bank originally built as a house in 1886, set on the west side of Main Street with its asymmetrical front elevation facing east.

The ground floor is divided into two distinct sections. To the right is the bank front, which consists of an entrance to the left followed by three large evenly-spaced windows. The entrance comprises a relatively tall flat-arch opening containing a panelled timber double door with a modern glazed door behind it and a plain rectangular fanlight above. The entrance is embellished with Baroque detailing including a moulded shouldered surround, a frieze with scroll ends and swag moulding, and a segmental tympanum. The three windows have timber sash frames with plate glass. Above these windows runs a moulded string course, followed by a bank signboard bearing raised plastic letters (probably illuminated from within), and above that a moulded cornice course. The bank front is finished in rusticated render and painted. To the left of the entrance is a plastic projecting bank sign, also likely lit from within. To the left of the bank front are three evenly-spaced windows, slightly taller and narrower than those of the bank front itself but with similar frames and moulded surrounds. The facade outside the bank front is finished in painted lined render.

The first floor contains six unevenly-spaced windows similar to those on the left of the ground floor but without moulded surrounds. The north gable has no openings and is finished in unpainted cement render.

The rear elevation features a relatively large single-storey gabled projection on its left-hand side. The south-facing side of this projection has two windows with modern timber frames and security bars. To the right of the projection, on the ground floor of the main section, is a doorway with a modern timber and glazed door and narrow sidelight, followed by two identical windows. Further right, set within a large recess, are a doorway with a timber sheeted door and a window with a modern timber frame. The first floor of the rear elevation has five unevenly-spaced windows: the three to the left and centre are the same size with modern timber frames, except the far left window which has a fixed timber frame with multiple Georgian-like panes. The two windows to the right are of differing sizes and have similar modern frames to those on the ground floor. The rear elevation and projection are finished in unpainted lined cement render.

The slated gabled roof has four unevenly-spaced ridge chimneystacks, all rendered with moulded corbelling. A small skylight is positioned on each the east and west sides of the roof. The projection roof is also slated with an overhang, plain bargeboards, boxed-in eaves and curved timber brackets. The rainwater goods are cast-iron, including a square downspout to the front attached to the wall with brackets featuring oval mouldings.

To the rear is a relatively large yard, now disused and largely covered with weeds. At the west end stands a single-storey gabled outbuilding with rubble walls and slated roof, in poor condition. Its east elevation contains a window, a door, another door and another window, with the windows largely frameless and the doors badly dilapidated. The south side of the yard is enclosed by a high rubble wall.