20/22 High Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7PD

A Grade B2 listed building: a 3-bay, 2-storey mid-terrace house, built around 1870 as part of a terrace erected by the Drapers' Company in the Post-Famine period to improve the character of Moneymore's High Street. The building demonstrates mid-Victorian terrace housing construction and has group value as part of its original terrace context.

The High Street elevation is practically symmetrical and rendered smooth, lined with plinth, frieze and straight quoins, and painted. The central feature is an arched doorway with a 4-panelled moulded door, flanked by pilasters, blocking pieces, scrolls and cornice. The door is topped by a semi-circular fanlight with a heavy frame matching the pilaster width and good ironmongery. On either side of the doorway are single 4-pane double-hung sliding sash windows with segmental heads. The first floor has a plain band stringcourse jointing the cills, with three 4-pane double-hung sliding sash windows with square heads. An ogee gutter sits on a corbel course, with a natural slated roof and moulded brick chimney stacks with a single downpipe. A back return with a lean-to roof extends under the main house gutter; the rear walls are roughcast-rendered and unpainted.

The rear (west-facing) elevation is finished in dry dash. All rear windows have been replaced with PVC frames. A broad two-level return dominates this elevation, its roof pitch merging with the main building's roof. The ground floor of the return contains an altered window with a late 1900s concrete cill and a doorway with a flat-panel door accessed by steps. The upper level has two windows flanking a much larger elliptical-headed window. A small single-storey porch extension with a large window and partly-glazed timber door (lean-to roof of corrugated iron and PVC) projects from the left of the return at ground level. Additional windows exist to the right of the return at both ground and first floor levels. Four Velux windows are set into the west roof slope. PVC rainwater goods serve the rear elevation.

The rear yard is enclosed on the west side by a low two-storey gabled outbuilding, now finished in dry dash with most original openings blocked. The roof is slated. A large single-storey flat-roofed garage extension has been added to this outbuilding.

The building was probably designed by W.J. Booth and built by George Tipping, replacing an earlier terrace designed by Jesse Gibson. Although Booth had retired as company architect in 1855 and died in 1871, he had prepared several design variations earlier. The house was likely sold by the Drapers' Company around 1891 under the provisions of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885 (Lord Ashbourne's Act), which enabled 100% loan financing. The building was listed in 1975 and is situated within a conservation area. The property has been converted from residential use to retail use.