32 Main St, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5UJ

The building at 32 Main Street, Hilltown, Newry, is a two-storey, two-bay house constructed around 1800. It is situated on a hill to the north side of Main Street. The building is not considered to retain any features of historic or architectural interest.

The roof is covered with concrete pantiles and features modern, overhanging boxed timber eaves. A single pebble-dashed chimney is on the party wall between the bays. The rainwater goods are semicircular plastic, with downpipes on either side of the front elevation. The walls are pebble-dashed with a smooth rendered base course, which widens on the right side as the street slopes downwards. All windows are modern: uPVC double-glazed on the ground floor and modern timber on the first floor, all having thin concrete cills. The ground floor layout, from left to right, includes a modern uPVC door, a large modern window to the left bay, a sheeted timber door, and a large modern shop window and glazed door, combined in a single opening with a step up to the door on the right bay. The first floor has three modern fixed windows with side-hung casements and transoms, two to the left bay and one to the right. The exposed right gable is blank. The rear elevation has not been inspected.

Two buildings are shown on a valuation map from 1834, and the building was described as two two-storey houses in a valuation book from around 1861. A 1972 survey card initially described the building as a terrace of two-storey buildings with lined rendered walls, slated roofs along a squared eaves cornice, and four double-hung windows on the first floor with plain sashes. It noted that two ground floor windows were modern, one was a double-hung window with four-pane sashes, and entrances on the ground floor were modern, with another entrance door being sheeted.