16 Hall St., Maghera, Co.Londonderry

One and a half-storey, one-bay, rendered end-terrace house; previously a cafe. Principally rectangular in plan form with a slate duo-pitched roof, a single-storey cat-slide roof to rear and a rendered chimney stack to the NE side. Built c.1855; the name of the architect is unknown. Part of a symmetrically composed terrace of five listed buildings (HB08 05 008 A-E) located within the village of Maghera, on the southeast side of Hall Street, Principal elevation, one-bay wide, faces North-West. Half-dormer to roof, with scalloped painted timber bargeboards, contains a single square-headed window opening with painted timber window (boarded up) and stone sill. On the ground floor, a timber shopfront window (boarded up) adjoins a single entrance doorway, with fixed transom light above a modern timber half-glazed door, that provides access directly from the footpath on the Hall Street. Walling at first floor has smooth rendered finish (painted) and vertical timber boarding (painted) on the ground floor. The side elevation, facing North-East, has a painted smooth render finish. The one and a half-storey gable has two square-headed window openings that are irregularly spaced - a one-over-one timber sliding sash window at ground floor level and a small window at first floor. The single storey gable has one square-headed opening located between two surface mounted metal chimney stacks. Rear elevation SE. has no original survey photographs. Materials: Roof: Natural slate RWGs: Cast-iron Walling: Smooth render (painted) & vertical timber siding Windows: Timber. Setting: An end of terrace (NE) in a row of five listed buildings numbering 16 to 24 (HB08 05 008 A-E) on the southeast side of Hall Street, Maghera. The terrace is a symmetrical arrangement with a central two-storey house flanked on either side by two smaller one-an-a-half storey houses. Each end of terrace house has a matching half-dormer on the principal elevation. The terrace fronts onto the footpath. The NE gable addresses a small walled garden with rubblestone wall to front set a little way back from the line of the front elevation and rendered block wall with concrete coping to the side.