109 Newry Street, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5PZ

109 Newry Street, Rathfriland, is an early 20th-century manse built between 1900 and 1919. It is a two-storey building with an attic, arranged in three bays and set at the end of a terrace on the north side of Newry Street. The building replaced an earlier structure on the site, as recorded in the 1904 valuation book, and was first occupied by Reverend Thomas Harrison.

The pitched natural slate roof covers the main block, with a canted natural slate roof over the left bay. A skylight sits on the rear pitch. Rendered and corbelled chimneys rise from each gable end. The gables are overhanging with plain bargeboards. Plain boxed eaves carry modern aluminium gutters and a downpipe positioned at the left of the façade. The walls are lined in rendered cement on a chamfered basecourse.

The south-facing front elevation has its central bay at half the width of the two flanking bays. The central bay contains the main entrance: a modern four-panelled stained timber door with a glazed transom above. The door sits within a decorative render architrave flanked by pilasters with recessed panels at top and bottom and a raised moulded roundel between. These are crowned by paired fluted consoles with rectangular blocks above bearing incised medallions. A moulded cornice with an egg-and-dart course surmounts these, topped by a scrolled pediment with quarter fans to either side. Directly above at first-floor level is a single 1/1 stained timber reproduction sash window.

The left bay features a two-storey canted bay with windows on the front and each cheek, all matching the style of the central window, with chamfered reveals. Between the ground and first-floor windows are moulded stucco panels with decorative relief: the front face displays a sunflower medallion with spears and feathers, while those on the left and right cheeks show foliated designs.

The right bay has two windows on each floor, matching the others, with panels between ground and first-floor levels as on the front face of the left bay.

The left gable has a single 1/1 sash window at ground and first-floor centre, with two small semicircular-headed 1/1 windows in the attic on either side of the chimneybreast.

The rear elevation is partly obscured by modern additions: a single-storey extension with a flat roof to the extreme left and a modern porch with a flat roof at the centre. The remaining wall is rendered. Between the extension and porch is a 1/1 sash window with a rendered cill. A modern casement window with a concrete cill sits at ground-floor right. At first-floor left is a single 1/1 window, with a smaller window between ground and first floors to the right (serving the bathroom). A 1/1 margin-paned window is positioned at the centre between ground and first floors (at the stairwell). The single-storey return and porch are modern with no features of interest.

The right gable is abutted by a slightly lower building; the exposed wall section above is blank.

To the street frontage is a rendered dwarf wall with decorative wrought iron railings featuring bracketed tops and spiked finials. A pedestrian gate hangs between ornate cast-iron posts. A pair of similar gates at the left leads into the rear yard.

The building is owned by the Presbyterian Church and retains its use as a manse.