24 Downpatrick Street, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34

A three-storey house with garage shop to ground floor, set in a terrace on E side of Downpatrick St. Pitched natural slate roof with coped cement-rendered chimney to each gable. Half-round plastic gutters to cast-iron downpipe at left on street facade. Main elevation faces south to street. Painted and lined smooth cement-rendered wall with cill course to first and second floors. At left is a painted t+g sheeted vehicular door into passage leading to garage/yard at rear of premises. Remainder of G/F comprises a symmetrical shop front set behind the frontage. Partly glazed timber door to centre with plain rectangular transom over. Flanked to each side by a horizontally-divided picture window. A timber facia runs across: 'Garage' at left and 'Service' to right in wooden lettering. The section across the actual shop is supported at either side of the entrance by a painted cast-iron column with founder's mark: 'The Millfield Foundry Belfast'. Remains of cantilevered petrol pump pipe to each side of frontage. First floor has three equally spaced windows, all 1/2 top-hung casements (left one boarded over). Top floor also has three window semicircular headed openings, in line with those below but diminished in height. Each opening contains a pair of casements with semicircular transom over. Left gable abutted by a taller building. Rear elevation abutted by later additions. Right gable abutted by a lower building. Exposed section blank. Large double-pile garage to rear. Roofs are of corrugated metal over timber rafters but no structural features of special interest.