Haugheys, 36 Ann Street, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6AD

Haugheys is a large three-storey shop with dwelling built in 1896-97, located on the north-west side of Ann Street on the north-east side of Ballycastle town centre. The building remains largely externally intact with its original shop front preserved.

The asymmetrical front elevation faces roughly south-east. At ground floor level, the left portion contains a shop front with a central recessed doorway fitted with a pair of wood-framed and glazed doors with good ironmongery and fanlight. On each side of this entrance is a single-pane display window with moulded panelling below the cill. Narrow display windows flank either side of the recessed entrance. A good glass name fascia with gold lettering and surface decoration spans the shopfront, with the whole frame finished with panelled pilasters. A pull-out awning sits over the fascia, with good scrolled stops at each end. To the right of the shop entrance is a door to the living accommodation, a six-panelled moulded and fielded door with a plain framed fanlight, good door knob, and vertical letterbox, all set within a classical doorcase with pilasters, frieze and pediment. A further small shop window features a tripartite display with a series of small panes above and a large centre display pane, with moulded panel below the cill and a small framed name fascia above.

The first and second floors each contain four sliding sash windows of two panes with moulded architraves and two corbels under the cills, the second-floor windows being of lesser height. The eaves feature an ogee gutter with a single downpipe. The walls are smooth rendered, lined, and unpainted, with rusticated quoins that do not extend to pavement level.

At the rear, the building has an off-centre shallow three-storey back return with a lean-to roof, probably containing stair landings. A two-storey, one-bay-long return projects from this with a double-pitched roof. To the right of the returns are double-light two-pane windows on each floor, with the upper pane top-hung; other windows are two-pane. The roofs are covered in natural slates with chimneystacks on the gables and two Velux-type roof lights on the rear slope. The building observes the terrace building line.

To the rear is a small enclosed yard at ground level and a straight flight of steps leading to a long, level garden at the height of the first floor, with a good paved terrace.

The property was built by George Haughey on previously vacant ground and remains in the hands of his descendants.