32 Hill Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1AR

32 Hill Street is a three storey building with attic, forming the left end of a terrace of three classical Georgian houses on the corner of Hill Street and O'Hagan Street in Newry. It was constructed between 1820 and 1839, appearing on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map and valued at £40 in the 1838 valuation. The 1863 valuation described it as three and one-third storeys high plus basement.

The pitched roof is natural slate with two modern skylights to the rear pitch. A large cement rendered chimney with moulded coping rises from the left gable. All gutters are metal and semicircular in profile, with a metal downpipe to the left of the main facade.

The facade wall is painted, lined cement render with a projecting granite eaves course and stepped, unpainted v-channelled granite quoins to the left corner. The ground floor features a modern conservation shop front containing the main entrance—a modern glass and timber door with semicircular transom—flanked by four windows with semicircular heads separated by decorative timber mullions and plain timber spandrels. The stall riser is plain cement render. Door and windows are set within a pair of granite pilasters with moulded brackets supporting a raised timber fascia. A modern hanging sign is mounted above the fascia, with a security alarm box to the right.

The first and second floors have three equally spaced 6/6 sliding sash windows with horns, diminished in height and set on unpainted granite cills. The first floor windows have decorative metal balconettes; those to the second floor are plain.

The left gable (facing O'Hagan Street) is painted, lined cement render with stepped granite quoins to the right corner. The ground floor shop front here is divided into two sections by additional pilasters, containing a six panelled modern escape door and three windows to the left, and three windows and an ATM to the right. A hanging sign and modern street lamp are attached above the fascia. At second floor is a central 6/6 sliding sash window. At attic level in the gable centre is a similar window.

The right gable forms a party wall with number 34 Hill Street.

The rear elevation is painted, lined cement render with no doors. At ground floor right is a single 6/6 sliding sash window. The first floor has two similar windows, one to the right (above the ground floor window) and one to the left. At second floor are three 6/6 sliding sashes—those to left and right align with openings below, and a third is roughly central. All have balconettes matching those on the facade.

The building has undergone radical remodelling, particularly the installation of the large shop front and reorganisation of much of the interior. It currently functions as a bank and is situated within a conservation area.