17 Main Street, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim, BT53 8RF

A single-fronted two-storey terrace house dating to circa 1835–40, originally double-fronted but radically altered in 1996 when much of its eastern half was amalgamated with the neighbouring property. The building bears little resemblance to its former self either externally or internally.

The house is situated on the north side of Main Street, with the front elevation facing roughly south. The ground floor contains a doorway to the right with a panelled timber door and plain rectangular fanlight, encased in a moulded surround with keystone (this surround is recent). To the right of the doorway is a window with horned timber sash frame and plate glass, similarly framed with a recent moulded surround. The first floor has two similar windows. The front elevation is finished in painted lined render with rusticated quoins.

The rear elevation displays a doorway to the left on the ground floor with a recent part-glazed door. To the right is a broad, probably enlarged window with a modern timber frame. Above the doorway is a window at half-landing level with a modern timber frame. A similar but slightly larger window sits to the right on the first floor. Two very small windows positioned close to the eaves above this, both with timber sash frames of two panes over two, occupy a level with no corresponding front elevation. The internal staircase does not appear to rise above first floor. The rear elevation is finished in painted roughcast.

The building has a gabled roof, slated to the front at minimum. A large rendered chimneystack stands to the west. Rainwater goods are a mixture of cast iron and uPVC.

Historical records indicate the site was developed by 1832. The present two-storey structure likely dates to shortly after 1834, possibly among the new houses 'lately built' referred to in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of September 1835. The second valuation of 1859 records a two-storey house matching the present building's pre-1996 dimensions (11 yards by 8 yards by 2½ storeys), containing a shop and two apartments below, with four rooms above and two garrets. The occupant was James McBride senior, with James Smyth as immediate lessor. Successive occupants included Chestnut Peacock (from 1864), John Peacock (1875–78), Eliza Peacock (1878–81), Samuel Peacock (1881–88), and Thomas Wilson (from 1888, still resident in 1930). By 1956 the property had passed to A. Cusick. The building retained its original double-fronted form until 1996, when the eastern portion was integrated with the adjacent No. 15.