105 Main Street, Bushmills, Co. Antrim, BT57 8QB

105 Main Street, Bushmills, is a two-storey, two-bay, painted rendered end-of-terrace building, constructed between approximately 1834 and 1857, with the architect unknown. It sits on the west side of Main Street within the Bushmills Conservation Area, at the end of a terrace row of similarly scaled buildings, due south of Market Square, with Main Street running parallel to the Bush River. The building was delisted on 2 June 2017.

The building has a rectangular plan form with a fibre cement slate pitched roof. There are unpainted rendered chimney stacks to the south-east and north-west sides, and a two-storey rough-cast rendered rear return to the south-west side, which has a slated pitched roof to the left and a flat roof to the right.

The principal elevation faces north-east and is finished in lined and ruled smooth painted render, set on a painted plinth, with toothed quoins to the right corner picked out in a contrasting colour and half-round uPVC guttering discharging to a uPVC circular downpipe. The entrance is to the left side, fitted with a vertically sheeted replacement timber door accessed directly from the paved footpath. The two bays on both ground and first floor carry square-headed window openings, though the ground floor doorway is not centred below the first-floor window above. All windows to the front elevation are currently boarded up — with vinyl sheeting carrying graphic images at first floor level and metal sheeting at ground floor. Masonry sills are painted throughout.

The south-east side adjoins the neighbouring property at 107 Main Street. The north-west gable elevation has lined and ruled smooth unpainted render, clipped eaves, and a central corbelled chimney to the apex. Its fenestration is irregular: a single timber casement window with metal grilles at ground floor, and two window openings at first floor, both boarded up with plywood sheeting. The rear return on this gable also has a single boarded-up window at ground floor level, and a change in render texture indicates that a doorway in this return has been infilled at some point.

The south-west rear elevation is partially obscured by the two-storey rough-cast rendered return. To the right of the return at ground floor, a large window opening is concealed with plywood sheeting, and to the left is a single entrance doorway containing a flush timber door. At first floor on the return there is a single timber casement window, not aligned with the bays below. Beyond the flat-roofed portion of the return, the main south-west elevation of the principal block has one window opening at ground floor — boarded up with plywood — and one at first floor containing a timber casement window with textured, broken glass, also boarded up from inside. Rainwater goods to the rear return are uPVC, with a cast-iron soil and vent pipe.

The building's history begins with the site appearing on the Townland Valuation Town Plan of around 1834, although the Townland Valuations of 1835 described the structure then present as old and dilapidated, suggesting the current building is a replacement. It was first recorded on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1857 and appeared in Griffith's Valuation of 1859, which assigned it a total rateable value of £4 10 shillings and recorded it as leased by James L. Moore to Isaac Taylor. Occupancy changed frequently over the following decades. By the turn of the 20th century, John McKay, a local nailor, had established a shop on the premises. The 1901 Census of Ireland classified it as a second-class shop and dwelling comprising six rooms, with a cow house and piggery as the only outbuildings to the rear. The Ordnance Survey Town Plan of 1902 showed the building in its current layout, including the rear return, indicating that its basic form has changed little in over a century.

Under the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (covering 1936 to 1957), the rateable value rose to £19. At that time the property was leased by Hugh Lecky, a prominent local landowner, to Joseph and William Cameron, who maintained a shop there. In 1950 the Camerons leased the building to James Blair, who remained until around 1968. By the end of the Second General Revaluation (1956 to 1972), when the rateable value stood at £40, the building was vacant. The 1972 Ulster Architectural Heritage Society guide to North Antrim described Main Street, Bushmills generally as "a well-scaled street," noting that "many good doorways and shopfronts remain, although there is the usual profusion of signs," and that "while no building apart from the former Courthouse is worthy of individual mention, the unity of the street frontages must be maintained."

The building was listed in 1980 and subsequently included in the Bushmills Conservation Area, which was designated in 1992 to preserve the built heritage of a village that possesses the highest number of listed buildings in the north-east of Northern Ireland. It was recorded most recently as in use as an office.

The exterior front elevation retains little original detailing, though the window proportions and toothed quoins at the corner have survived. The loss of historic fabric internally, combined with the later rear return which obscures much of the rear elevation, significantly detracts from the building's overall interest. Although the simple two-storey gabled form contributes to the character of the streetscape, the cumulative effect of all the changes was judged to mean the building no longer holds sufficient architectural or historic interest to warrant listed status, and it was consequently delisted in 2017.