Roebuck Inn, 25 Main Street, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 OEP

The Roebuck Inn is a pre-1830 building, part of a pair with number 23 Main Street, that has been so extensively altered both internally and to its rear that listing can no longer be justified.

It is a two-storey, three-bay terraced house on the south-east side of Main Street. The facade is of painted brick with rendered and decorated ground floor. The upper floors feature elaborate architraves around imitation sash windows with lugged design and keystone at the centre of the head. Each window contains eight square panes rather than the rectangular proportions typical of Georgian work. Stone cills and a slate roof complete the upper storeys, with reconstructed brick chimneys at each end of the ridge and cast iron rainwater goods.

The ground floor contains two entrance doors of similar design. One sits at the south-west end of the facade, aligning with the windows above. The other aligns with the space between the upper windows further to the north-east and is flanked by two narrow windows with heads aligning with the door fanlights. All openings to this floor have pronounced quoins which interrupt a more standard architrave at regular intervals, forming what is known as a Gibbs surround. The doors have semi-circular fanlights, single pane with an interlacing etched pattern in the background. Both doors have five panels with two vertical panels above the mid rail featuring semi-circular heads, and retain original door furniture. Between the openings the plasterwork is coursed. An entablature across the whole facade bears the name 'Roebuck Inn' and terminates in a cornice above the first floor window cills. Each end of the entablature is punctuated by a projecting bracket carved with overlapping medals and ribs. The rear of the building is obscured by a two-storey pitched modern return extending across the full width of the facade and to the Department of Environment car park, narrowed near the car park to maintain a right of way to the back of number 23.

The building appears on the 1831 map of Newtown Limavady and likely dates to pre-1830, with architectural features of its neighbouring building suggesting an early construction for the pair. By the 1858 Griffiths Valuation it was occupied by Mr J Callaghan, leasing from Mr S Thompson, and valued at £20—one pound more than its neighbour—suggesting the elaborate Victorian remodelling of the facade had already taken place. The Christian Brethren are recorded as meeting here in 1859. By the 1950s it functioned as a solicitors office for Kevin Agnew through the late 1960s, and also served as a weekly meeting space for the Hibernian Bank. By the early 1970s it was described as the former National Bank. A 1989 application for change of use from shop to licensed premises led to the rear extension designed by architects Loughery and Agnew. The building is reputed to have a ghost.