31 Ann Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AA

This is a two-and-a-half storey terrace house, likely built in the late 19th century, with a bowed shopfront and ornamented dormer windows. The building is notable for the design and ornamentation of its well-preserved facade, complemented by the surviving internal features and overall form. It also has group value as part of a pair of buildings within the streetscape, and lies within a conservation area.

The house is two bays wide and includes a basement. The ground floor features a four-panelled door with knocker and letterbox, set on a worn sandstone step. Flanking the door are pilasters with elongated, panelled pedestals topped with rococo detail, capitals, and scrolls. Above the door is a segmented fanlight. The shop window has a large central plate glass with curved glass corners, divided by slim mullions and shaped corner pieces. Small lights above the segmental head echo the fanlight design. The fascia, acting as a shallow canopy over the entrance door and window, has square corners that highlight the curved glass below, and is finished with a good cornice and reasonable lettering. The colour scheme is pleasing, and its low cill line is a feature. At the first floor, two double-hung, two-pane sash windows are centered on the elevation. The wall is smooth and unpainted. A shallow, plain frieze sits below a half-round metal gutter. The roof is natural slate with a gable chimneystack. Two fine gabled dormers, featuring open fretwork barges and spiky finials, are set into the roof, beginning just above the main gutter, which it shares with the adjacent building at number 33. To the right of number 31, an entry leads to a carpark. The gable is smooth and unpainted. The rear of the building has a three-storey, flat-roofed return that is slightly narrower than the main house and includes an extended basement. The return includes modern windows and doors, with smooth, painted walls. A single, off-centre dormer with gabled, plain barges, a two-pane top hinged window is situated on the rear roof slope. The footpath is wide and crudely paved with a mixture of paving slabs, bitumen macadam, and manholes, presenting a somewhat rough surface to the pleasing shopfront.

The building was likely erected in the 1880s, with the shopfront probably added between 1900 and 1919. It was upgraded in 1987 with grant assistance.