23/25 High Street, Moneymore, Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, BT45 7PA

A Grade B2 listed building comprising a detached early 20th-century house with an integral Post Office shopfront, built in 1906 for a veterinary surgeon (MRCVS). The property remains in the same family and continues in use as a Post Office.

The building is 2½ storeys, three bays wide with a projecting gabled bay, constructed of red brick with slate roof and a lean-to return at the rear. The High Street elevation presents an asymmetrical breakfront gable to the south containing the Post Office shopfront. The shopfront, not quite centred on the gable, features a central pair of timber-framed and bolection-moulded two-panel narrow doors with plain fanlight. Large single-pane display windows flank the doors, framed by narrow pilasters with stylised capitals. A painted name fascia with end scrolls is protected by plain lead flashing. Below the window cills are brick panels with small metal ventilation grilles. Above the shopfront, centred on the gable, is a two-pane double-hung sliding sash window. Two fixed enamelled signs attached to the brickwork at fascia level advertise Post Office services including Money Order Office, Savings Bank, Insurance, Gratuity Office, Postal and Telegraph services.

The house entrance to the right comprises a four-panelled door set in a framed screen with a small bottom moulded square panel and vertical glazed panel with three-light fanlight above, all set within a segmented arched opening. To the left stands a single-storey canted bay with three two-pane double-hung sliding sash windows, the centre window almost twice the width of the others. Above the door and bay, two two-pane double-hung sliding sash windows are centred at first-floor level.

The main walls are laid in Flemish bond red brick with a timber fascia incorporating a half-round gutter and slight overhang. The south gable is finished in unpainted roughcast rendering and features brick quoins; it contains a ground-floor sheeted door pair with three-pane fanlight, a four-pane double-hung sliding sash window at first-floor level, and a small two-pane double-hung sliding sash attic window under the barge overhang. Good barge boards with expressed purlins and finial complete the gable. The north gable has two-pane double-hung sliding sash windows, off-centre and directly aligned at ground and first-floor levels, with a round-headed two-pane double-hung sliding sash window positioned high in the gable apex. The roof is finished in natural slates with red ridge tiles. A single square red brick chimney stack with four pots is centred on the ridge in line with the canted bay.

The rear comprises a two-storey lean-to return faced in red brick, occupying approximately two bays and containing an assortment of double-hung sliding sash windows. The main house rear roof slope incorporates modern rooflights, with a single rooflight on the lean-to roof. A further single-storey return occurs at the north end.

The interior is very well preserved with Victorian detailing throughout. The shopfront retains early signage and represents a typical early 20th-century Post Office configuration.

Although detached, the building observes the High Street building line and its brick finish accords with its southerly neighbours, contributing positively to the streetscape. The property is located within a conservation area. The building is documented on the 1906 Ordnance Survey Map with the Post Office already indicated at this location.