101 Main Street, Moira, Craigavon, Co. Armagh, BT67 0LH

A two-storey, three-bay end-terrace Georgian townhouse built c.1735, with an L-shaped plan form and attic, located at the northeast end of Main Street in Moira. The building marks the entrance to the main street of the Georgian village and forms the end block of the historic terrace comprising numbers 77 to 101 Main Street, with which it has group value. It now functions as a café.

The listing includes the first floor room over number 95 Main Street. The building is constructed from natural finished random rubble basalt with 1½ red brick flat arches over window openings. The gable end has been rendered with fine stone roughcast. The pitched roof is natural slate finish with clay ridge tiles and a clipped verge to the left hand gable end. Cast iron rainwater goods with semi-circular guttering are fixed to single brick corbelled eaves, with a circular down pipe painted black. One brick chimney with no pots is located on the left hand side gable.

The principal elevation faces north and presents a generally symmetrical arrangement. Windows are single glazed, 6/6 Georgian timber sliding box sash windows with horns, painted white, with large rectangular stone cills. A tripartite window in Wyatt style has been added to the left hand side of the centrally located front entrance, a late 20th century addition. Three windows are uniformly arranged to the first floor. The front entrance door is a six panelled timber door with cast iron ironmongery and a decoratively arranged horizontal lattice transom light over, common to the area.

The left east gable is splayed at an angle, adjacent to the grounds of St John's Parish Church. It features a single ground floor sliding sash window on the left hand side and additional smaller windows at high level. The east facing return façade runs flush with the gable with its original openings infilled.

The rear elevation faces south and includes a subservient 1½ storey single bay return to the right hand side. The original door of the rear elevation exists as access into the rear return. The original ground floor window opening of the rear elevation survives and functions as a single glazed timber sliding sash, looking directly into the interior of the rear return. The return windows are single glazed timber casement arched windows with two high level single glazed timber fixed lights. The rear return originally comprised individual vernacular dwellings and now incorporates a seating area for the café and the two dwellings at number 99 Main Street.

The right hand gable faces west and abuts number 95 Main Street. The building displays modest Georgian style and proportions in harmony with number 95 Main Street (HB19/22/005K). The building faces directly on to the principal road through Moira with direct entrance off the footpath. A large rear unfinished yard shared by multiple owners is accessed via a coach entrance located at number 95 Main Street. The end terrace building is the first terrace building on the left hand side of Main Street when approaching the town from the north. It is partly secluded by vegetation and trees in the adjacent church grounds.

Built c.1735 as part of the early development of Moira credited to the Rawdon family, who owned the Moira Demesne. A date stone located on the facade of the terrace opposite is widely accepted to indicate the completion of the village during this period. This period of development saw the town's built stock change from agricultural mud and thatch buildings to locally quarried basalt and brick terraces which lined Main Street. Harris described the settlement in 1744 as "a well laid out and thriving village consisting of one broad street inhabited by many traders many of whom carry on linen manufacture to good advantage".

The earliest Ordnance Survey map from 1833 shows the end terrace with a large return to the rear, although the return buildings are likely a later addition, as evidence of original openings to the rear façade can still be found. Early maps also indicate large formal gardens to the rear. The Annual Revision maps 1866 to 1878 initially identified the buildings as two individual dwellings numbered 138 and 139 in the town of Moira. By 1876 both came under one occupancy when the Hammond family took up the tenancy. The Cook family occupied the house in 1877, but John North became tenant in 1893. The North family remained in the house for several decades. The Rateable Valuation Binders 1933 to 1957 note that the house was old, in bad repair and had no modern conveniences. The building, along with many others adjacent, eventually fell into serious disrepair and lay vacant for a period before undergoing major renovation in the early 1990s, which saw it successfully converted into commercial premises. Although the building has lost most of its original fabric during this restoration work, it retains its essential character externally and makes an important contribution to the architectural heritage of Moira.