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

Warehouse adjacent to 1 Canal Street, Canal Quay, Newry, County Down

A three-storey warehouse, five openings wide, fronting the west side of the Newry canal. The roof is gabled, with corrugated metal covering one half and natural slates the other, though rainwater goods are missing.

The main façade faces east and is of smooth cement render over random rubble, though the render is in very poor repair. At ground floor left is a large entrance with a steel lintel set just beneath the second floor window opening and a right jamb of concrete block. This contains a set of metal-framed double doors sheeted with corrugated metal. To the right is a smaller flat-headed doorway with a painted timber-and-groove sheeted door incorporating a wicket gate. Between these two entrances, just right of centre, is a small window opening now sheeted over but retaining a granite cill and metal security bars. At first floor centre is a timber-and-groove sheeted loading door, with a pair of metal brackets below its cill indicating the former presence of a loading chute. To either side of this door are two timber-and-groove shuttered window openings without cills. A similar loading door and four windows appear on the second floor, positioned in line with those below but reduced in height. The second floor door is partly accommodated in a gable rising from the eaves. A cantilevered timber hoisting beam projects above it. 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, with the exposed section of wall finished in wet dash.

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

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

The annexe was added to these buildings and features three small eaves gables at right angles to the axis of the front block. At ground floor are a small door, a window, and a semi-elliptical arch. At first floor are two windows and a central loading door. Some openings have brick relieving arches.

On the opposite side of the yard, opposite the return, stands a two-storey random rubble building, four openings wide facing the yard. It is now ruinous, without roof and floors.