20 Main Street, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5PS

Three storey (+ attic) commercial premises on N side of Main Street. Pitched natural slate roof with cement skews and modern red brick chimney to W gable. Three cast iron skylights on rear pitch. Semicircular metal rainwater goods. Front elevation is lined cement rendered and painted with two stage moulded rendered eaves and alternating pairs of V-channelled stucco quoins (gone at ground floor left). Shop front consists of two large modern picture windows to either side of a modern door (with sidelights and transoms). At extreme left is a former doorway with transom, now glazed as a window. Modern individual wall mounted letters state ‘‘Stewart & James”. Marks in the render, the missing quoins and a lead flashing set in render between ground and first floors suggest that an original timber shop front has been removed. First and second floors are identical. To central bay is a 2/2 exposed box sliding sash (with horns), moulded stucco architrave and painted granite cill. Left and right bays each have larger tripartite windows consisting of 2/2 sashes flanked by narrower 1/1 sashes, (all with horns), architraves and cills as before. The heads of the second floor tripartite windows break the eaves mouldings suggesting that they have been enlarged at some time. A lower building abuts the left gable. Exposed gable is painted and smooth rendered. Rear elevation is much altered and extended. To right is a two storey return, with pitched roof, which has been extended to left filling the rest of the elevation. Of no interest. Large rear yard. A lower building abuts the right gable with the exposed gable smooth rendered and unpainted.