4 Windsor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1ER

4 Windsor Hill is the second from left in a terrace of five three-storey, two-bay houses stepping up Windsor Hill in Newry. This simple but attractive mid-19th century townhouse retains most of its original features and forms part of an important and largely unaltered group at a major entry route to the town.

The building has a pitched artificial slate roof with a cement rendered chimney to the left gable and a cast iron skylight to the rear pitch. Semicircular metal rainwater goods with a downpipe run down the right of the façade. The wall to the façade is painted lined render with a painted base course. Two granite steps rise to the main entrance at right, which has a modern four-panelled painted timber door with a plain transom over.

To the left bay is a single 6/6 exposed box sliding sash window with modern timber and timber glazing beads and double glazing, set on a painted granite cill. There are two similar windows to each upper floor, positioned in line with the ground floor openings. The left and right gables form party walls with adjacent properties.

The rear elevation is abutted at left by a single-storey lean-to extension. The remaining wall to the first and second floors is plain cement render. To the left between ground and first floor is a modern 6-paned top-hung timber casement window, which may originally have been a 6/6 sliding sash before the extension was built and abutted at cill level. To the first floor right is a single 6/6 exposed box sliding sash window with horns and a painted granite cill. Between the first and second floors at left is a 3/6 exposed box sliding sash window with painted granite cill. To the second floor right is a similar window. The extension has a flat felted roof with modern skylights. Its rear wall is painted cement render with three modern top-hung timber windows and a modern timber and glass door.

The rear yard is enclosed by painted rubble walls to either side and by an outhouse to the rear. The outhouse is two-storey with a pitched natural slate roof and random rubble walls. To the yard it has a central door with a modern window to the left and an infilled window to the right. At first floor, in line with the ground floor windows, are modern timber casements. The rear wall to the alley is unpainted rubble with a painted tongue-and-groove sheet door to the ground floor left.

The present house first appears on the 1858 Ordnance Survey map, along with the other four in this terrace; it is not shown on the 1834 map. It is described in its present form in the 1863 Valuation, with Thomas King listed as owner, who was probably responsible for construction of the entire terrace.