3 Main Street, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim, BT53 8RQ

Three Main Street is a large, three-storey end-of-terrace building combining a shop on the ground floor with apartments above, built around 1840. It was possibly originally constructed as a police station and stands at the end of Main Street in Armoy.

The front elevation faces approximately south and is asymmetrical in composition. The main entrance, now serving the shop, sits slightly left of centre on the ground floor. It comprises a large elliptical-arched opening containing a recessed panelled timber double door and an elliptical fanlight with petal tracery. The opening is framed by reeded pilasters and a moulded archivolt with keystone, though the pilasters have a sharp appearance suggesting recent replacement. To the left of the entrance is a relatively small window with moulded surround and a horned timber sash window with plate glass. To the right stands a shop front with recently-added period-style detailing, including a large window with three segmental arch-headed lights, fluted pilaster jambs with decorative brackets, and a painted signboard. The first floor contains three uniform but unevenly-spaced windows matching the ground floor left window type. The second floor has three shorter windows with modern timber frames made to resemble sash windows, these lacking surrounds. The front elevation is finished in painted lined render with a bevelled base course and raised in-out quoins. Decorative railings run along this side of the building.

The eastern gable is finished identically to the front elevation but has no openings. The rear elevation features a large two-storey lean-to projection on the right-hand (western) side, appearing to be a recent extension. The ground floor of the projection's north face has a small window to the left and a doorway to the right, both with modern timber frames; the doorway has a recent timber door with small glazed panel. The first floor has a broad window with modern timber frame. The east face of the projection contains an upper-level doorway with a recent timber-sheeted door with small glazed panel and strap hinges, accessed via a modern metal fire-escape stair. The rear façade of the main building section contains a first-floor window to the right with horned timber sash frame and plate glass. The entire rear elevation is finished in unpainted roughcast with a recessed smooth cement render base course and raised in-out quoins. Window openings have smooth cement render surrounds, with smooth cement render to the wall edges of the projection.

The gabled roof is slated at the front but the rear appears to be covered in asbestos slates. A small Velux window is present to the back. Two rendered chimneystacks project from the roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted to the front, with PVCu rainwater goods to the rear. The roof covering of the lean-to projection was not visible during inspection.

To the rear of the building lies a concrete-covered yard with a large two-storey gabled outbuilding on the north side. This outbuilding is finished as the rear elevation of the main building with modern window frames and recently replaced doors. Its roof is covered in corrugated iron.