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

A 2½ storey, 3 bay wide, projecting gabled bay, shopfront with lean-to back return, red brick and slated house. The entrance to High Street has a breakfront asymmetrical gable to the south and contains the Post Office shopfront, not quite centred on the gable, the remaining 2 bays contains the house entrance and a ground floor canted bay. The shopfront has a central pair of timber framed and bolection moulded 2 panel narrow door, over a plain fanlight. On each side large high single pane display windows, with narrow pilasters framing door and windows with neat stylised capitals. Over a painted name fascia with end scrolls, fascia board and bottom moulding. Fascia protected with plain lead flashing. Below the window cills, brick panels with a series of small metal ventilation grills. Above the shopfront and centred on the gable but not on the door below, a 2 pane double hung sliding sash window. Good barge boards with finial, expressed purlin ends, and moulding under slate overhang. To the side of the shopfront, fixed to brickwork on a level with name fascia 2 enamelled signs : Post Office Money Order Office Savings Bank Insurance and Gratuity Office Postal Telegraph Office The entrance door, 4 panelled, set in framed screen with small bottom moulded square panel and vertical glazed panel with fanlight over divided in 3 and the whole screen set in a segmented arched opening. To left of door a single storey slated and canted bay with 3, 2 pane double hung sliding sash windows, the centre one almost twice the width of the others. Centred over door and bay 2, 2 pane double hung sliding sash windows. Timber fascia with ½ round gutter, slight overhang, walls redbrick in Flemish bond, returned onto S gable in brick quoins. S gable finished in roughcast rendering unpainted, the remainder of walls in facing brick including back return. The S gable has a ground floor sheeted door pair with 3 pane fanlight over. A 4 panedouble hung sliding sash window at 1st floor and a small 2 pane double hung sliding sash attic window under barge overhang. Good barge boards and expressed purlins and finial. N gable has 2 pane double hung sliding sash window off-centre at ground and first floor directly over each other and a round headed 2 pane double hung sliding sash high up in gable apex. Roof natural slates with red ridge tile, a single square red brick chimney stack with 4 pots, centred on ridge in line with canted bay. At the rear the lean-to 2 storey return occupies 2 bays approximately from the N faced in red brick and has an assortment of double hung sliding sashwindows, 2 of which occur on the main house block, the rear roof slope of which has modern rooflights and a single one on the lean-to roof. A further single storey return occurs at the N end. No. 23/25, though a detached house, observes the building line of the High Street and its brick finish is in keeping with its southerly neighbour.