Warehouse adj. To 1 Canal Street, Canal Quay, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6BP

A three-storey warehouse fronting the west side of the Newry canal, constructed between 1760 and 1779. The building is five openings wide with a gabled roof, partly covered in corrugated metal and partly in natural slates. The main façade faces east and is rendered in smooth cement over random rubble, though the render is in very poor repair.

At ground floor level, the left side contains a large entrance with a steel lintel positioned just beneath the second-floor window opening and a concrete block right jamb. This entrance holds a pair of metal-framed double doors sheeted with corrugated metal. To the right is a smaller flat-headed doorway with a painted tongue-and-groove sheeted door incorporating a wicket gate. Between these two entrances, slightly right of centre, is a small window opening now sheeted over but retaining a granite cill and metal security bars.

The first floor has a tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door at centre, with a pair of metal brackets below its cill indicating the former presence of a loading chute. On either side are two tongue-and-groove shuttered window openings without cills. The second floor is similarly arranged with a loading door and four windows, reduced in height. The second-floor door is partially contained within a gable rising from the eaves. Above it is a cantilevered timber hoisting beam. This gable retains its natural slates. The right gable is of unrendered random granite rubble and was formerly abutted by a now-demolished lower building. At first floor right is an infilled doorway. The left gable is abutted by a lower two-storey building; the exposed wall section is wet dashed.

The rear façade is abutted on the left by a two-storey return and along the remainder by a two-storey annexe rising to eaves level. Internal inspection shows a brick-headed doorway in what is now a party wall at ground floor left. The right wall has been demolished to improve access to the annexe, with upper-floor walls supported on steel joists. At first floor left is a doorway to the annexe, with a defunct tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door to its right. Two window openings follow, now without shutters, also rendered defunct when the annexe was added. The second floor has similar openings in line with those below. A gable with natural slate roof rises from eaves above the loading doors, without a cantilevered beam.

The left return has a pitched corrugated-metal roof joining the rear pitch of the main block. Its wall junction indicates it was added to the existing front block. It has random rubble walls with a raised brick eaves course. Its north-facing wall contains an infilled window opening at first floor left. Its south wall, facing the yard behind the main block, has at ground floor two semi-elliptical arches with a small door between them, and four first-floor windows.

The annexe has been added to these buildings and features three small eaves gables at right angles to the main block's axis. At ground floor is a small door, window, and semi-elliptical arch. At first floor are two windows and a loading door at centre. Some openings have brick relieving arches. On the opposite side of the yard is a two-storey random rubble building, four openings wide (all facing the yard). It is now ruinous, without roof or floors.

The right return is possibly shown on Bernard Scale's 1763 town map. All buildings, including the rear portion of the main block, are definitely shown on the 1836 Valuation Map and are described in the accompanying Valuation Book as stores belonging to Corry, Little and Swanze. A kiln, presumably for drying grain, is also noted on the site. By 1863, the premises were owned by William Sinclair and Abraham Walker, with the kiln described as dilapidated. By 1888, the entire complex was downvalued due to its dilapidated condition.

The warehouse is an example of a late 18th to early 19th-century canal warehouse of historical interest, though insufficient quality fabric remains to merit listing. It is currently used as a factory and is located within a conservation area, with significance for industrial archaeology.