Ivory Bar and Grill, 59 Main Street, Moira, Craigavon, Co Down, BT67 0LQ

Ivory Bar and Grill is a mid-terrace four-bay two-storey house built around 1735, facing north on Main Street in Moira. The building is rendered with a pitched natural slate roof and black clay ridge tiles, with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Cast-iron guttering with ogee moulding sits on drive-through iron brackets, with cast-iron downpipes. The walling is painted with ruled-and-lined render.

The front elevation features square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and replacement tripartite timber sash windows with fluted mullions and fluted stepped friezes. The central door opening has a three-centred arch and is flanked by a pair of fluted slender pilasters, with replacement flat-panelled timber doors, timber tracery sidelights, and a further pair of pilasters supporting a stepped lintel cornice with webbed fanlight above. A granite step with wrought-iron bootscraper leads to the door. A square-headed carriage arch with rounded corner features vertically-sheeted timber doors and an octagonal wheel-guard stone.

The rear elevation is adjoined by a large single-storey flat-roofed extension to the west and a gable-ended two-storey rendered extension to the east, both built around 2003, which run along a vehicular access lane to the carriage arch. A square-headed window to the rear overlooks the flat-roofed extension with a timber sash window, and a diminutive window opening above the carriage arch has a single-pane timber sash window. The paved rear yard has a reinstated rubblestone wall with a pair of redbrick door openings.

The building retains much of its original fabric externally and many 18th-century internal details including original window linings with raised and fielded panels and an original staircase. The internal features suggest late Georgian improvements around 1790. Despite modern extensions to the rear and some replacement windows to the front elevation, the building retains its essential character as a good example of its type.

The building appears on the 1833 Ordnance Survey maps as part of the terraces lining Moira Main Street, which developed during Moira's transition from agricultural buildings to stone and brick townhouses, a development credited to the Rawdon family who owned the Moira Demesne during this period. Early maps indicate a large formal garden to the rear, a common feature in Moira at the time, though by the 1858 Ordnance Survey map these had disappeared. Griffith's Valuation of 1864 records the premises as a house with outbuildings. By 1870, when Joseph Cousins took over the tenancy, the premises became a shop on the ground floor. By 1891, it had changed use to a public house. By 1908, the public house had been extended into the adjoining property number 61, and in 1909 the tenancy was taken up by a spirit dealer named John Bateman. By 1933, the public house had moved completely into the adjoining property, with number 59 functioning as a dwelling once more. Following the R.V. Binders valuation of 1935, which recorded that the house was very old and in bad repair, Bateman appealed the first valuation. Following inspection, the valuer responded that the dwelling was old but in fair order with large rooms fitted with electric lights, proposing a reduced valuation of £34. At the time of survey in 2010, the house had reverted to serving the public as a restaurant, though it was closed around 2012.

The building is a valuable part of this early and varied historic terrace in the heart of Moira, and the extent of listing includes the house and yard walling.