63 Main Street, Moira, Craigavon, Co. Armagh, BT67 0LQ

63 Main Street, Moira is a three-bay two-storey Georgian terraced townhouse built around 1735 and remodelled during the later eighteenth century, likely around 1770. The building retains much of its original external fabric and a largely intact eighteenth-century interior, despite later alterations.

The house is rendered and painted with ruled and lined decoration. It features a pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneybacks at either end. Cast-iron guttering is fitted to replacement brackets on the rendered eaves, with cast-iron downpipes (earlier iron brackets remain visible). The rectangular plan includes a lean-to extension to the rear.

The north-facing front elevation is symmetrical across three bays with square-headed window openings and painted masonry sills. The windows are original 6/6 timber sashes with semi-exposed sash boxes and no horns. A continuous sill course runs below the ground floor windows, with a moulded plinth course beneath. The focal point is a three-centred door opening with an original decorative doorcase. The replacement timber panelled door is flanked by two pairs of part-engaged Ionic columns with slender plain sidelights, supporting a lintel architrave and decorative curvilinear fanlight with moulded archivolt and single scrolled console brackets. The door opens onto a flush sandstone step to the pavement.

The east elevation is abutted by the adjoining house No. 65. The rear elevation has a random arrangement of replacement window openings with replacement timber casement windows set in rough-cast render over brick walling, with plastic rainwater goods. The lean-to extension has a corrugated iron roof, timber casement windows, and a glazed door. The rear yard is enclosed by a salvaged stone and brick wall set at an angle with timber gates, now developed as a beer garden serving the adjoining property No. 61.

The interior retains an intact A-frame timber roof structure with some nineteenth-century replacements, including flat-panelled window linings, moulded architraves, and skirting boards.

Early mapping suggests the building dates from Moira's development from agricultural buildings to Georgian stone and brick townhouses during the period when the Rawdon family owned the Moira Demesne. The Ordnance Survey maps from 1833 show the house as a mid-terrace dwelling with large formal gardens to the rear; these gardens had disappeared by 1858. Early valuation records from 1866 onwards indicate the Millis family occupied the property, which included stores and outbuildings to the rear. The house was vacated in 1879 due to bad repair but later became tenanted again from 1907. By the 1930s, the outbuildings had been converted to uses including a fowl business, and records note the structures to the rear formerly comprised a flour mill. A 1950 inspection described the property as a large terrace house containing a hall, two receptions, scullery, four bedrooms, water closet, and septic tank, with extensive derelict buildings in ruins to the rear.

The building forms part of a terrace in the centre of Moira village set back from the main road and has group value with other historic houses on this block, including No. 65 Main Street. It is situated within a conservation area.