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

Large two-storey terrace house and shop, built c.1840, but its enlarged present form dates from 1996, when part of the (probably contemporary) property to the west was ‘annexed’ to form a bigger shop. The building is set on the N side of Main Street. The front elevation faces roughly S. To the right of centre is the house doorway which consists of a panelled timber door and plain rectangular fanlight encased with a moulded surround with keystone. To the left of the doorway is a large shop front with modern ‘period’ features and corporate signage and panelled timber door. There is a post box set within the shop front (which predates the present enlarged front). To the right of the doorway is a window with horned double sash frame with plate glass and surround similar to the doorway. To the first floor there are three similar windows and a single sash window. Between the second and third windows there is a curious projecting figure of a lion. The front elevation is finished in painted lined render. To the rear there are two long two-storey returns, with that to the E taller than that to W. That to E abuts the wall of the neighbouring property to the E side. To the N-facing gable there is a single-storey lean-to extension with large window with modern frame to its N face. To the first floor of the gable there is a small narrow window to left, with a modern timber frame. To the ground floor of the W face of the return there are three uniform windows, with timber sash frames as front. To the first floor there are two windows with modern frames. Where the W face of the return meets the main section of the building, there is a full-height bevel. To the ground floor of this there is a doorway with recent part glazed door, whilst to the first floor there is a window with a modern frame. The W return is finished in plain painted render. The E return appears to have been extended to the W side with the addition of a lower flat-roofed section, finished in dry dash and devoid of openings. To the N side the return abuts an outbuilding (now modernised). To the E face of the return there are two windows to the ground floor, both with horned timber sash frames (two panes over two). There are two more similar, but squatter, windows to the first floor. The E face of the return is finished in painted render at ground floor level with the upper floor painted. There is a window (with modern frame) to the right hand side of the rear façade of the main section of the building. The gabled roof of the main section of the building is slated and has two large rendered chimneystacks. The gabled roof of the W return is also slated and has at least one cast-iron skylight to the E side. The roof covering of the E return could not be seen, however the roof of the lean-to to its N gable is slated. The rainwater goods are a mixture of cast-iron and PVCu.