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

A three storey / one bay building sharing a common roof with Nos. 2&4 (HB16/08/028A), on E side of Church Square. The first and second floors of this building are one, forming a large double height first floor. Walls are cement lined render with V-channelled stepped quoins to upper floors. Pitched natural slate roof with lined cement rendered chimney to right end gable. Painted advanced stone eaves course supports modern plastic guttering feeding into No. 4. At ground floor right is a pair of t+g sheeted storm doors with Gothic headed fanlight with Y-tracery. The remainder of the ground floor is filled by an early 20thC shop front, the glazed and panelled doorway of which is recessed at left end and has a has a segmental head to its bottom rail. Narrow plain glazed transom over. Threshold is black and white tiled and is flanked on both sides by curved glazing which encloses a small display area to left and continues to right as main shop front with run moulded rendered cill. A later plain timber fascia has been applied and a timber awning box sits upon a platband which runs between ground and first floors. First floor has two large Gothic headed widows, left one set further from centre that right one. Each window opening has a painted granite cill and run moulded stucco architrave. Each opening consists of a pair of narrow 4/4 sliding sashes, each top sash having an additional Y-tracery glazed head and plain infilled spandrel. Set on wall between the two window openings is painted rectangular granite plaque, which has been rendered over. There are two third floor windows, in line with those below, with similar architraves and cills. They are 3/3 sliding sashes with exposed boxes (identical to, and in line with, those at No.4). Left gable forms party wall with No.4 (HB16/08/028A). Rear elevation advances beyond the rest of the terrace under the rear pitch which catslides. Its right cheek is cement rendered and has a boarded up window with granite cill at first floor. Its left cheek forms part of its end gable. The rear wall has a small central gablet on wall-head, with pitched natural slate roof tied into main roof. Plastic rainwater goods. To its left and right are narrow (horizontal) windows (both blocked up) with their heads at eaves level. There is a modern door at ground floor left (into a now demolished rear return) and at right is a large window opening which is boarded over. The ghost of the rear return can still be seen in the render. It was two storeys with a pitched natural slate roof. To rear is a yard. Right gable is abutted by a lower building. Its exposed section is rendered and blank.