121 - 123 Main Street, Bushmills, Co. Antrim, BT57 8QB

Nos 121–123 Main Street, Bushmills

A pair of early-Victorian terraced houses originally built between 1834 and 1857 on the west side of Main Street. The two-storey, five-bay rendered building featured quoins, unrecessed plain sashed windows (paired in the second bay from the north on each floor), a slated roof, and rendered chimneys. The ground floor contained a shopfront with pilasters across the southernmost two bays, a pedimented entrance door in the centre bay, and a coach arch in the northernmost bay. Window openings were arrised.

The two originally separate buildings were combined into a single structure in 1916. According to Griffith's Valuation (1859), the northernmost building was valued at £4 10 shillings and leased by John McFadden, whilst the adjoining structure was valued at £2 15 shillings and leased by Hugh Lecky, a prominent local landowner. Following their consolidation in 1916, the combined building was revalued at £25 and leased by Hugh Lecky to Thomas Magee, a retired Royal Irish Constabulary Inspector. By the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936–57), the Magee family operated a shop and petrol filling station from the premises, with the property revalued at £32. Under the Second General Revaluation (1956–72), the rateable value was increased to £51. The building continued in commercial use until the 1990s when it fell vacant.

The building was listed in 1980 and included within the Bushmills Conservation Area, designated in 1992 to preserve the village's built heritage. The early-Victorian structure was demolished circa 2005 to make way for new apartment buildings to its rear. The site has since been converted into a memorial garden consisting of tarmac and grassed surfaces with timber bench seating, surrounded on the south-west and north-west sides by plywood hoarding. The stone gable-end of the adjoining property No 125 Main Street remains exposed to the south-east. The vacant site is situated on the west side of Main Street with views north towards the Market Square.