14 Main Street, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49 OEU

This former Georgian town house stands at the south west end of a block of three at 14 Main Street, Limavady. A four-storey building of the second half of the 18th century, it is indicated on the 1831 town map and retains sufficient architectural and historic interest to justify record listing, despite internal alterations and changes to the rear.

The front elevation preserves its original Georgian character. The building is two bays wide, constructed of exposed brick above a rendered ground floor. The brick is notably more red in colour than the neighbouring houses. A slate roof with cast iron rainwater goods tops the structure, with a large brick chimney matching those on Numbers 18 and 20 to the north east of the ridge, and a smaller brick chimney on the south west gable.

Sash windows of graduating heights rise up the façade. The first and second floor windows contain twelve panes each, whilst the third floor windows have nine panes. Between the first floor window cills of sandstone projects an iron bracket for a former lantern. The bracket consists of a scroll supporting a horizontal arm ending in a square loop. When surveyed in 1970, this lantern was made up of red and blue panes and labelled "British Woollen Hall", serving the premises of Moffat Donaghy and Co Drapers.

The ground floor shopfront features a timber entablature supported by three timber Ionic columns with stone bases. Two columns flank an imitation sash window in a former door opening at the south west end, whilst the third column supports the other end of the entablature to the north east. The present central door is flanked by a shop window with a finely decorated frame. Below the windows on each side of the door are casement windows in a Georgian pattern, lighting the basement. Three concrete steps lead to the entrance door.

The building was used as a shop until the late 1980s. The owner renovated the structure in 1995, carrying out changes to the shopfront including insertion of a more appropriate Georgian mullion pattern to the large window, which had previously been a single pane of glass. However, the apparent sashes conceal top-hung openings. The front door was also moved from a recessed position to be flush with the front.

To the rear there is no return. Windows are less ordered, and two large dormers with timber sheeting and triple sash windows rise from eaves level. The former stable is a separate house. The internal layout has been substantially altered.