24/26 High Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7PD

This is a mid-Victorian terrace house, likely constructed between 1860 and 1879, as part of a development by the Draper’s Company following the Famine period to improve Moneymore’s High Street. It is an end-of-terrace building, situated on the northern end of the row, and extends to two storeys with a rear return. The front elevation, facing High Street, is three bays wide. A central arched entrance has a five-panelled, moulded door with pilasters, blocking pieces, scrolls, and a cornice. The door’s lower panels are glazed, and a semi-circular fanlight is set within a frame matching the pilaster width, with good ironmongery. To one side of the entrance is a single four-pane double-hung sliding sash window with a segmental head, while the other side features a shopfront with a glazed door, a display window at a low cill, and an illuminated plastic sign. A plain band stringcourse connects the first-floor cills and supports three two-pane double-hung sliding sash windows with square heads. The front walls are smooth, rendered, and painted, with mock rustication on the ground floor, a plinth, frieze, corbel course, and a half-round gutter with kneeler. The natural slate roof has a moulded chimney stack. The gable wall is similarly smooth rendered and painted. The rear has a flat-roofed return extending over one bay, and a lean-to roofed return over two bays; the roof is flashed under the eaves. The rear windows are a mix of square-headed and round-headed designs. The rear walls are roughcast rendered and unpainted. The terrace was likely rebuilt around 1870 to designs prepared earlier by William John Booth, although he was no longer the Draper's Company architect at that time and died in 1871. The terrace replaced an earlier design by Jesse Gibson. George Tipping may have been the builder. The house was possibly sold by the company around 1891, potentially under the terms of Lord Ashbourne's Act of 1885. The building was listed in 1975. Historically, the building served as a bakery, then a wineshop, and later as offices for a bus company; the upper floors are currently vacant. The building is located within a conservation area and is in private ownership.