93 Main Street, Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, BT51 5AB

A one-and-a-half-storey, two-bay twin-gabled end-terrace house and commercial premises, built around 1850 and situated on the east side of Main Street in Garvagh town centre. The building does not meet the criteria for listing.

The structure has a rectangular plan with a flat-roof extension to the rear. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles and a rendered chimneystack to the north gable. Plastic bargeboards and terracotta finials finish the west gables. Plastic rainwater goods are fitted throughout. The walls are painted ruled-and-lined render with a contrasting plinth and raised quoins, with a moulded string-course between floors. All windows are replacement uPVC; those to the first floor gables sit in projecting segmental-headed surrounds with flush sills and keyblocks, whilst ground floor windows have projecting painted sills.

The twin-gabled front elevation faces west, with each gable containing a tall window that breaks the eaves line. The ground floor left bay has a large window opening and uPVC door, whilst the right bay contains a shopfront with a large modern window opening and glazed uPVC door topped by a modern fascia. The north gable is blank. The east elevation is concealed by the flat-roof extension, and the south gable is fully abutted by the adjoining building. Access to the rear yard is via a modern timber gate at the north gable.

A building was recorded on this site on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832, but the Townland Valuation of 1828–40 valued it very low at £2 8 shillings, indicating it was likely a single-storey vernacular building. By Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64, the structure appears in its present form as two separate holdings: one occupied by Michael McCloskey, a carpenter (recorded in Slater's 1846 Directory), and the other by Michael Keegan. Both were valued at £2 10 shillings and £2 5 shillings respectively, with the building recorded as 15 feet high and thatched outbuildings to the rear. The lease was held from John Quigg.

The shops were taken over by Robert Cox in the mid-1880s. The 1911 census lists him as a carpenter and builder living in this eight-room, second-class house with his wife, daughter, and granddaughter. In the 1920s the premises became a single shop operating as 'Garvagh Drug Store', becoming a hairdressing salon in the 1930s. Valuer's notes from that period record accommodation comprising a reception, saloon, kitchen, scullery, and five rooms, with an earth closet and water laid on to the scullery. An attached plan shows the house and scullery return, with stables and sheds to the rear.

Although valuation records show no major changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the building has undergone several phases of remodelling, including recent alterations to ground floor doors and windows. Since early 1970s survey photographs, upper-floor windows have been replaced and the right ground floor shopwindow has been reduced in size. The building was listed in 1977; alterations to the rear took place in the 1980s. Late twentieth-century refurbishment and inappropriate replacement fabric have degraded the original character.