113 Moore Street, Aughnacloy, BT69 6AR

113 Moore Street, Aughnacloy

A tall three-storey terrace building in the centre of Aughnacloy, formerly a house over shop, now in office use. The main block is likely of pre-1834 construction, with an unusual two-storey jettied return to the rear that appears to date from after 1851. The building stands within a largely 19th-century streetscape, though its architectural interest has been diminished by late 20th-century alterations and is not of listable quality.

The front elevation is rendered with ruled and lined finish, flanked by plain quoins to the upper levels. The ground floor is dominated by a modern asymmetrical shopfront with two-light windows set on rendered stallrisers, a recessed main entrance, and a full-width modern fascia in printed acrylic sheeting framed with aluminium angle strips and timber. The first and second floors each contain three evenly spaced window openings; those on the second floor have reducing Georgian proportions. The current windows are uPVC replacements. Above the building on the north and south sides, gables rise above the neighbouring properties, exposing rendered walling, each with a small flat-headed window opening to the right side.

The exposed western rear façade shows irregular fenestration: a flat-headed ground-floor door opening at the far left, a first-floor flat-headed window directly above it, and single flat-headed window openings at the second and third floor levels, set slightly to the right. The long rear return extends almost the full width of the property. The first-floor extension is cantilevered on the north side, creating a jetty detail supported on stout cantilever beams with bull-nosed edges. Two supporting piers were added in recent times, one directly below a bracket and the other slightly offset. This jettied arrangement was devised to maximise internal floor space while accommodating a right of way between the adjoining properties (nos. 111 and 115). The profile of the jetty resembles that of a timber-framed medieval dwelling, though it was almost certainly created in the mid-19th century to solve these particular site constraints.

The roofs are pitched and slated with shallow eaves, covered in black fibre cement slates with matching copings. Stone-capped parapets crown the gables. Tall rendered chimneystacks with corbelled caps sit on the ridge-line at either side of the main roof. Rainwater goods are uPVC replacements. Walls are rendered, with roughcast finish to the rear and sides. The shopfront and front door are timber-framed.

Ordnance Survey maps and valuation records document the building's development. The 1834 six-inch map shows the site developed with an open area between the main street-front building and the return; the contemporary valuation map shows the return set at a distinct angle to the main block. The gap is clearly marked on the revised 1850-51 map, suggesting at least part of the jettied upper floor was constructed after this date. The footprint visible today is recorded on a town plan of 1896, and a measured plan in a valuer's notebook of 1911 documents all current parts of the building, though the gateway is oddly not referenced.

Documentary evidence shows John Givan as tenant in the mid-1830s, with Elizabeth Longhead as immediate lessor. By 1868, McBride & Son occupied the building, indicating it contained a shop by that date. Later occupants included George Moore (1873), Sayars Brothers (1904), Michael Daly (1906), and Monica Brady (1967).