15 Main Street, Ederney, Enniskillen, BT93 0DH

15 Main Street, Ederney, is a small early Victorian rendered house and former shop with group value alongside the adjacent listed Post Office. Built between 1840 and 1859, it is unusual for a commercial building of this quality to have survived almost intact, giving it considerable rarity value.

The two-storey building sits in the middle of Ederney Main Street with its front elevation facing west. The west-facing front is particularly well detailed. The left entrance door is a double vertically sheeted timber door with a mouth organ overlight above, providing access to the former shop premises. Either side of this door are two large shop windows, each with 16 fixed lights. The right entrance door, a replacement sheeted timber door with cast-glass window to its upper half, gives access to the house. Above each door on the first floor are 6 over 6 timber sliding sash windows with narrower outside panes than centre ones. The walling is roughcast rendered with smooth bands around the openings, to the plinth, and at eaves level. To the extreme right are rusticated vertical quoins that match the other end of the adjacent Post Office group. Both roof slopes are clad in natural Bangor blue slates with half-round cast-iron gutters supported on iron brackets. A single chimney stack is constructed from coursed sandstone.

The rear elevation, accessed through the coach arch of the Post Office, is two bays wide. The main wall of the house has timber sliding sash windows to each floor—boarded over on the outside but original in place: 6 over 6 on the ground floor and 1 over 1 on the first floor. A late twentieth-century two-storey flat-roofed extension sits to the left. Behind the house is a substantial enclosed yard to the south with a tall rubble stone wall, divided from the Post Office by a five-bar gate and overgrown hedge. To the east is a stone-walled and painted two-storey outbuilding with irregular openings and a double-pitched corrugated-iron roof, attached to a similar outbuilding to the rear of the Post Office. At right angles in the yard is a single-storey open shed with mono-pitch corrugated-iron roof, now used as a store.

Valuation records from 1834 show this side of Main Street had been developed by the 1830s, though with a mixture of relatively old single to one-and-a-half storey dwellings and public houses, some thatched, the tallest measuring 12.5 feet. The plots on the c.1838 village plan do not appear to match present conditions. A building much as it appears today is shown on the 1859 village plan and recorded in contemporary 1858-60 valuation records as being leased by John Monaghan, who also leased the neighbouring Post Office to the north. The similarities between the two buildings suggest Monaghan may have been responsible for their construction.

The building was most recently used as a dwelling house. Prior uses include a café and earlier a tobacconist's shop. It is currently vacant.