2 Ann Street ('Selma's'), Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AD

Two storey terrace shop with apartment and carriage archway, located on the north-west side of Ann Street in the centre of Ballycastle. The building probably dates from around 1840, though it may have been constructed as late as 1859.

The asymmetrical front elevation faces south-east. A recently renovated shop front occupies the centre and right portions, featuring period-style timber pilasters and signboard. This encloses a centrally positioned recessed modern glazed shop door with large flanking modern windows, and a panelled door to the right (providing access to the apartment) with a rectangular fanlight above. To the left of this ensemble is a segmental-headed carriage archway containing a timber doorway. The first floor displays three unevenly spaced plain sash windows. The front elevation is finished in painted render.

To the rear, access was limited during survey. The far left of the rear elevation features a large two-storey gabled return which merges with a large single-storey flat-roofed extension on its south-west side. Both the return and extension are finished in painted roughcast. The exposed south-west face of the return has two windows with modern frames at first floor level, while the extension's south-west face has a doorway. The north-west facing gable of the return contains a ground floor window with a modern frame. The main building's north-west facing rear façade has two widely spaced first floor windows with modern frames; the left window appears to have been enlarged. Both the main building and return have gabled roofs covered in asbestos slates, with a rendered chimney stack positioned south-west of centre on the main roof ridge. Rainwater goods are metal.

Historical records indicate the site was developed by 1832. The 1859 valuation records a building matching the present structure, then occupied by Nehemiah McCaughan, an ironmonger and hardwareman, who operated a shop with back kitchen, rear room, four rooms above, and garret. Subsequent occupants included Anthony McAuley (1870), James McDonnell (1874), Mary Magill (1879), Mary Russell (1887), Daniel Cairns (1898), Mary Black (1899), Hugh Doran (1918), and others through the mid-twentieth century.

The property is situated within a conservation area.