18 Sandys Street, Newry, Co Down

This is a three-storey, two-bay terraced house on the south side of Sandys Street, Newry, dating from the period 1800 to 1819. It is of similar age and architectural character to number 17 Sandys Street.

The building presents a painted line-rendered façade with a raised painted base course. The roof is pitched and covered in natural slate, with a projecting coping on the left gable chimney. Metal rainwater goods are visible, with a downpipe on the left side; the rear pitch has plastic rainwater goods. The main entrance is at the right, featuring a modern four-panel timber door with a transom light above. A two-over-two sliding sash window with an exposed box is located to the left of the entrance. While the first and second floors each have two windows aligned with each other, they are not aligned with the ground floor openings. All windows have granite sills, with the top-floor windows being reduced in height. The left gable abuts a lower building (HB16/28/104A), with a rendered section of the shared wall visible. The right gable is adjoined by a neighbouring property (HB16/28/103). The rear wall is painted cement render, and is abutted at the left by a modern two-storey return. The ground floor of the main block has a modern two-pane casement window on the right. Above that is an identical window with a timber sheeted lower half. A matching window is located on the second floor, positioned above the right side of the return. A smaller two-pane casement window at half landing between the first and second floors is situated over the left pitch of the return. The return itself features a pitched roof covered in artificial slate, cement-rendered walls, and a small two-pane casement window at first floor. The back gable of the return is partially abutted on the right by a single-storey kitchen extension, which has a pitched artificial slate roof, cement walls, and a picture window. A derelict, random rubble outhouse encloses the back yard to the rear.

The house appears on an Ordnance Survey town map from 1835 and was occupied by William Riddle in 1838, according to a valuation book. The 1863 valuation book describes the building as measuring 18 feet 9 inches long by 23 feet 0 inches wide and standing three stories high. It is likely that the present building is the one depicted on the 1835 map. The building is situated within a conservation area.