127 Main Street, Bushmills, Co. Antrim, BT57 8QB

127 Main Street, Bushmills, is a two-storey, two-bay painted rendered mid-terrace house built around 1834 as part of the early 19th-century redevelopment of Bushmills village. The architect is unknown.

The building sits on the west side of Main Street within the Bushmills Conservation Area, positioned between neighbouring properties and aligned south of Market Square. It has a rectangular plan-form with a pitched roof of artificial slates and an unpainted rendered chimney stack to the north-west side. The principal elevation faces north-east, displaying three bays at ground floor level and two bays on the first floor, with the end bays aligned vertically.

The front elevation has a smooth rendered finish (painted). A single off-centre entrance doorway is accessed directly from the footpath; it contains a timber painted panelled door with multi-paned glazing to the upper section. All windows are uPVC top-hung casements set on painted sills. Moulded uPVC guttering discharges to a circular painted cast-iron downpipe running between this property and its neighbour. The south-east and north-west sides are adjoined to neighbouring properties. The south-west elevation to the rear is abutted by a two-storey flat-roofed return with rendered walling and uPVC guttering.

Whilst the original form, proportion and modest scale survive at the front, the exterior retains little original detailing. The roof and windows have been replaced with inappropriate modern materials, resulting in loss of historic fabric and detracting from the building's character. The cumulative effect of these changes means the building is of insufficient architectural and historic interest to warrant special status.

Historically, the building was first depicted on the Townland Valuation Town Plan around 1834 but did not appear in the 1835 Townland Valuations, suggesting it lay unfinished or fell below the £3 minimum valuation threshold. Griffith's Valuation of 1859 recorded it valued at £3, leased by John Taylor to William Kane and David Graham as a private dwelling. Occupants changed frequently over subsequent decades. By 1900 it was occupied by James Adair, a car driver. The 1902 Ordnance Survey Town Plan showed the house with a small outbuilding to the rear. The 1911 Census classified it as a second-class dwelling of five rooms with stable and piggery outoffices. James Adair continued as occupant through the First General Revaluation (1936–57), when the Dinsmore family (publicans at nos 135–137 Main Street) were recorded as owners and the value had risen to £5 10 shillings. Alexander Laverty purchased the property outright around 1952, and the Laverty family occupied it through the Second General Revaluation (1956–72), when the rateable value stood at £10. The building was listed in 1980 and subsequently included within the Bushmills Conservation Area when it was designated in 1992. It was delisted on 2 June 2017.