4-6 Lime Market Street, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, ** See general comments **

Nos 4–6 Lime Market Street is a mid-19th century terraced building on the west side of Lime Market Street in Coleraine town centre, constructed around 1850 as two separate private dwellings. The building is two storeys tall and five bays wide, with No. 4 occupying the three southernmost bays and No. 6 the two northern bays, the two properties originally divided by a central coach arch leading to a rear yard. In 1995 the building was converted into a function suite for the adjoining Bull's Eye Bar public house (No. 2 Lime Market Street). This conversion retained the front façade but resulted in the loss of much of the historic fabric and interior detailing of both former dwellings.

The building is rectangular on plan with a large two-storey modern extension to the rear that incorporates the neighbouring public house. The roof is pitched and clad in natural slate with angled ridge tiles, and a red-brick chimneystack is shared with the adjoining building. Rainwater goods are plastic, carried on a smooth rendered eaves band. The external walls are finished in painted smooth render over a contrasting plinth.

The principal elevation faces southeast and is five bays wide at first floor level. The windows throughout are replacement 6-over-6 timber sash with horns, set in plain reveals with projecting painted sills. At ground floor, a window and a modern timber door appear at both left and right. The centrepiece is an elliptical-headed arch containing double-leaf modern timber panelled doors, surmounted by a moulded arch on scrolled console brackets with painted lettering reading "THE FUNCTION SUITE." The southwest elevation abuts the adjoining building to that side. The northwest (rear) elevation is entirely enclosed by the modern extension. The northeast elevation abuts the neighbouring building at No. 8 Lime Market Street.

The setting has been considerably altered. The building sits on a narrow street that historically led to the entrance of the former Coleraine markets (completed 1829), and the surrounding buildings have been refurbished and the road laid with tarmac.

The building's history is well documented. The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1830 recorded no buildings along this short street, but by the second edition of 1849–50 the row on the western side, including Nos 4–6 and the adjoining No. 8, had been completed. Both properties were built as part of the southward expansion of Coleraine during the early Victorian period.

Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records No. 4 as valued at £4 10s., leased to a Mr Andrew Miskimin by Thomas Boyd, a local landowner and relative of John Boyd of Dundooan House, who was a Member of Parliament and owned several properties in Coleraine including the adjoining No. 8. Miskimin had vacated by 1866, when a Mr Neal Edgar took up residence, remaining until 1880. Between 1880 and 1899 the tenancy changed hands five times before Martha McClelland took possession around the turn of the 20th century, by which point the rateable value had risen to £6. The 1911 Census records Martha (Presbyterian, aged 37) living at the address with her two sisters, all employed as dressmakers. The census building return described the property as a second-class dwelling with four inhabited rooms and two stable houses to the rear (now demolished). Martha McClelland remained until 1926, when her relative James McClelland briefly took the tenancy, vacating by 1928. By the end of the Annual Revisions (cancelled 1931), the value remained at £6 and a Ms Mary Barr or Bass was recorded as occupant.

From 1926, ownership of both Nos 4 and 6 passed to Mr Archibald Roxborough, a local spirit merchant. Under the First General Revaluation of 1935, No. 4's value was raised to £10, with a Mr Thomas Johnston recorded as occupant. No. 4 was last valued in 1972 under the second revaluation (1956–72), at which time Thomas Jackson was still residing there and the rateable value stood at £12.

At No. 6, Griffith's Valuation of 1858 records a value of £5, also owned by Thomas Boyd and leased to a Ms Mary Hyland. Hyland vacated between 1859 and 1865, when Mr James King took possession. Over the following three decades the tenancy changed hands eight times and the rateable value was subsequently reduced to £4 10s. The 1901 Census records Mr James McCauley, a general labourer aged 26, living at No. 6 with his mother, his wife and their five infant children. Despite its modest size, the census building return described it as a first-class dwelling with eight rooms, and noted a turf house, shed and store as outbuildings. McCauley remained until 1909, after which the property was sporadically and briefly occupied or lay vacant. By 1926, when Archibald Roxborough took over the ownership of Nos 4–6, the value of No. 6 remained at £4 10s. Under the 1935 revaluation the value rose to £7, with Mr John Kennedy recorded as occupant. No further valuation took place for over two decades due to the disruption of the Second World War; Kennedy was still in residence by the end of the second revaluation in 1972, when the value stood at £9 10s.

Writing in 1972, Girvan described Nos 4–6 as "a pair of low two-storey houses of an early date, rendered with a central coach arch. The windows have thick glazing bars." A First Survey photograph, likely taken around the time of the First Survey description in 1973, showed the building in an advanced state of disrepair, with many ground floor windows broken and the entrance to No. 4 boarded up; the pair appear to have been vacant at that time. Nos 4–8 Lime Market Street were listed in 1977. The Bull's Eye Bar, established in 1871, had acquired the lease for Nos 4–6 in 1969 but undertook no works to the earlier houses until after 1977. The 1995 conversion combined the two dwellings into a single licensed property, now known as The Function Suite, used as a pool hall and function rooms by the Bull's Eye Bar. The adjoining No. 8 Lime Market Street continues to lie derelict. The building was delisted on 28 September 2015, having been judged not to be of sufficient architectural or historical interest to warrant continued listing.