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

Three storey / three bay building comprising shop (left) and house (right), set in a terrace on E side of Church Square, facing the former Market House (HB16/08/008). Pitched natural slate roof with two painted rendered chimneys – one to left gable and one on centre of ridge; both have single tall octagonal yellow terracotta pots. Tiled skews. Half-round plastic rainwater goods. Left half of the principal façade has an advanced eaves course and right has a heavily moulded painted granite eaves cornice Painted and lined cement rendered walls. At ground floor the shop fills the left bay. Its doorway, is to right and is recessed with a red and black glazed tiled floor. The door is three panelled (top two glazed) with a narrow two paned transom light over. Its right reveal is painted t+g sheeting. Its left cheek is canted and glazed. Filling remainder of shop front is a large fixed window with very thin two-paned transom over. Framing the shop front at either end are thin moulded timber pilasters, with small plain capitals. These support a plain timber fascia which continues right over part of the central bay of adjoining house. The house fills the central bay at ground floor. It has a modern stained timber and glazed door to left, its opening has a curved rendered reveal with granite threshold. To its right is a 1/1 uPVC window with painted granite cill and stop-end chamfered reveal. Ground floor right bay has a large sheeted timber door leading to rear passage. Between ground and first floors is a moulded stucco cornice, supported by paired brackets; it forms the cills of the first floor windows. There are four small regularly spaced 1/1 uPVC windows to first floor. The right two are slightly shorter than the others. All have run moulded architraves with vermiculated ornamental keyblocks. Window openings to second floor are diminished in height and again the right two are shorter than to left. All have moulded cills and run moulded architraves, with those to first floor have additional rusticated keystones. Left gable is abuts a higher property. A lower building (No.18 Church Square, HB16/08/010) abuts the right gable. Rear elevation was inspected from rear yard of HB16/08/010. Walls are unrendered random rubble. Ground floor left is the coachway and remainder was not visible. To first floor left, over coachway there is a single window opening (now infilled). To its right is a sheeted timber door. The right bay is abutted to upper half of first floor and all of second floor by a t+ g sheeted lean-to structure supported on a steel I-beam frame. Its roof is monopitched and slopes from the eaves of main building. To its main face there is a timber casement window. Rest of elevation not inspected. Rear yard has a two storey random rubble outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof.