1-3 High Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Londonderry, BT45 7PB

A three-storey, two-bay end house and shopfront built between 1820 and 1839 as part of Moneymore's second market project, designed by the Draper's Company's architect William John Booth. It forms part of a symmetrical neo-classical terrace composition in late Georgian style, now sadly insensitively altered but capable of redemption through appropriate restoration.

The High Street façade is faced with dressed ashlar stonework on the upper floors. The ground floor has been unfortunately altered and consists of a narrow plain fanlighted doorway with a four-panelled door with planted mouldings, approached by three steps of unequal height, an oriel bay window in wood subdivided into square small panes (many broken), and an improvised painted sign reading TAVERN. The wall finish is inappropriately finished in white roughcast rendering. The first-floor windows, formerly double-hung sliding sashes, have been replaced with modern four-pane casement insertions. The second-floor windows are similarly modern insertions of square proportion. The upper floors are faced with handsome ashlar sandstone without pronounced quoins.

Between this property and No. 5, a recess is formed in the wall to accommodate the trunkhead and downpipe, which appear to be original cast iron. An additional surface-mounted downpipe exists at the end of the terrace, which was probably not originally intended. The building features a half-round gutter and natural slated roof with a gable chimney stack, which has been rebuilt and rendered (formerly stone-faced). The chimney stack between No. 1 and No. 5 is stone-faced with a cornice capping. A street light is fixed to the façade with exposed electric cabling.

The south gable has no fenestration and is faced with coursed white squared random rubble limestone with flush sandstone quoins. It is painted and has a high painted plinth. A long incongruous single-storey, four-bay back return, rebuilt in smooth render with double exit doors and horizontal three-pane modern windows entirely out of character, features a flat roof. This return continues in line with a pitched-roof corrugated store whose south wall is partly in original white limestone with upper part rendered. The south gable of the corn store, which is part of the overall complex, is also in line. The upper floors of the rear have a vertical semi-circular headed window lighting the stairway, with single windows with modern insertions at first and second floors. The wall is faced as a gable with smooth quoins, half-round gutter, exposed soil and rainwater pipes, and a natural slated roof.

No. 1/3 is part of a terrace fronting onto High Street, designed as a symmetrical neo-classical ashlar-faced façade with a central pedimented breakfront containing an arched gateway with access to the market yard and corn store to the rear. This was a remarkable piece of architecture, now grossly treated by various alterations and lack of sensitivity. An environmental improvement scheme is currently being carried out involving footpath relaying.

The terrace house is part of the second market project undertaken by the Draper's Company in Moneymore. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs refer to it: "The Company are erecting a very handsome and capacious grain store and another market house, which is expected to cost from 5000 to 6000 pounds". The Company's map of improvements proposed by the Deputation of 1839 shows the formal arrangement of the complex, bounded on the west and north by High Street and Market Street respectively. The corn store today illustrates the underuse of the project, whose plans were prepared in 1835 on the proposal of Bridger, who said there was a need for such facilities. The project was completed in 1839, when contemporary reports noted "The whole pile of buildings is extremely well executed, has a most striking and ornamental appearance, and is admirably calculated for the purposes to which it is destined". The building was listed in 1975 when the owner was W Morgan. The present owner made a planning application to carry out alterations to the ground floor in the mid-2000s, but no work has commenced. Repairs were carried out in mid-1989 when Mr L Loughran was in occupation.