13 Church Square, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5PT

Large three-storey building of the 19th century, facing the Market House on the west side of Church Square in Rathfriland. The building has a shop front and passage to the rear at ground floor level, with five windows across each of the upper floors.

The roof is pitched with natural slate and brick skews, with red brick chimneys featuring projecting moulded brick copings at each gable. Seven skylights penetrate the front pitch and four the rear. The walls are lined with cement render. A three-stage rendered eaves course supports an ogee metal gutter with metal downpipes at either end.

At ground floor level, the left side contains a vehicular passage to the rear, enclosed by modern decorative metal gates. The remainder of the ground floor is occupied by a symmetrical reproduction painted timber shop front. A pair of modern glazed and panelled doors with decorative geometrically glazed transoms over forms the entrance, centred between large display windows. Each display window has three vertical divisions with three transoms over. Five broad fluted timber pilasters on advanced cement rendered bases provide vertical divisions—one either side of the shop doors, one between the vehicular entrance and the shop window to its right, and one at each end. These pilasters support a broad timber fascia with scrolled ends and moulded leaded cornice.

The upper floors each contain five reproduction sliding sash windows with horns and granite cills. Those to the first floor are horizontally divided 2/2, while those to the second floor are diminished in height and are horizontally divided 2/1. The glazing bars are very heavy. Four modern attached up-lighters at the level of the first floor cills illuminate the upper floors.

A lower building abuts the left gable, its exposed section cement rendered and blank. The wall at the right side is slightly instepped. The rear elevation has a smooth rendered vehicular access with a four-panelled door on the right cheek. The main block's rear elevation contains, at ground floor left, a modern four-panelled timber door with bolection moulding approached by steps and modern handrail. Above this is a single window to each floor. At ground floor right is the vehicular entrance with a single window to each floor above; these windows are identical to those on the front elevation's upper floors. The remaining walls of the main elevation are smooth cement rendered.

A large modern four-storey return abuts the rear, centrally located and abutting all but the extreme left and right bays. It has a hipped natural slate roof with cat sliding to the left and no chimneys. The return features boxed timber eaves and plastic squared gutter and downpipe to the right corner. Walls are smooth rendered with moulded platbands between each floor on all faces. The rear gable has a modern pair of uPVC casement windows on the right side of each floor, with thin concrete cills. The left cheek has a four-panel door to ground floor right and a uPVC window to first and second floors. The right cheek has a modern entrance door with glazed side lights at ground floor; the remainder is blank. A lower building abuts the right gable of the main block; the wall above is rendered and blank.