3 Newry Street, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5PY

Symmetrical three storey / three bay 18thC house situated in terrace N side of Newry Street. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimney on W gable. Two skylights on front pitch. Moulded advanced eaves course supports half round metal gutter and downpipe to E side of façade. Walls are lined cement rendered with stepped V-channelled painted granite quoins at left and painted basecourse. Principal façade faces S to street. Central bay has a modern t+g sheeted timber door with plain transom. It is set within an original granite finely dressed Neo-Classical doorcase on a single panelled base block. Comprising a moulded architrave with decorative entablature over (fluted frieze with oval rosettes to either end and moulded cornice). There is a window on each remaining bay at ground floor and three to each upper floor. All are 2/2 vertically divided sliding sashes (with horns) and painted granite cills with the exception of that to ground floor left which is a later large fixed shop window with top ventilator transom (fretted with quatrefoils). Top left window sashes are missing. Between the left and central windows at first floor is a metal bracket for a hanging sign (now gone). Window openings to principal façade now are fitted with plywoood. Left (W) gable is abutted by a lower building. The exposed wall over is irregularly rendered with an infilled opening at right on second floor and irregular granite stones projecting from top left wall. Rear (N) elevation is rubble stone with brick dressings. It is abutted to centre by a narrow three storey (stairwell) return, rear elevation is partially abutted to ground floor left, and completely abutted to ground floor right with other extensions. At ground floor left is a 6/6 sash window. At first and second floor left are similar windows. The return has a hipped natural slated roof (tied into rear pitch of main roof). Its walls are as rear elevation; each cheek is narrow and blank. Its N wall has a 6/6 sash set to left at first floor and on second floor is a 6/3 window. The left rear extension has a lean-to natural slate roof which abuts the E cheek of the first return. It has two cast iron skylights and a single modern window on its E wall. Its N gable (to narrow yard) has a doorway. Right (E) gable abuts a taller building. (HB16/08/042 former Ulster Bank now Fisher and Fisher Solicitors) The right extension at ground floor abuts the right bay and most of the rear return. It has a pitched natural slate roof (ridge abutting the right bay) and has a tall rendered modern chimney on its N end. It is abutted to N as a low two storey outbuilding with modern corrugated metal roof and dashed and lime painted rubble stone walls. Its E elevation fronts a small yard.