33 Patrick St, Newry, Co Down

This building in Newry, County Down, is one of a pair of townhouses constructed between 1820 and 1839, symmetrically arranged around a central coach arch facing onto Patrick Street. Originally part of a three-house terrace (number 37 has since been demolished), the building is three storeys high and three bays wide, including the bay above the coach arch.

The roof is pitched and covered in artificial slate, with a concrete brick chimney on the right-hand side and a shared, part-rendered clay brick chimney on the left. Metal rainwater goods are visible. The walls are painted and cement-rendered, rising to form a flat-roofed dormer over the top-floor windows. The coach arch on the left features dressed vee-jointed granite jambs and a semi-elliptical head. It contains two vertically-sheeted timber doors, one with a small wicket gate, and its right-hand jamb is shared with the entrance to the main house. The main house entrance has a reproduction ten-panel door set in a pilastered casing (also a replica), resting on granite base stones, with an original curved iron fanlight above. To the right is a modern rectangular picture window with a metal roller shutter. The first floor has three regularly-spaced plastic, top-hinged 1/1 windows. A shop sign hangs between the left two windows. The eaves have been raised to accommodate the dormer, which contains three windows matching those below. Window cills are painted, with the first-floor cills possibly granite, while the second-floor cills appear to be concrete. A lower house abuts the building on the right, revealing a cement-rendered gable above. A two-storey return, likely recent, abuts the rear wall on the left, obscuring original openings; it has a pitched artificial slate roof and cement-rendered walls. A flat-roofed dormer on the rear return has its window now sheeted over. Above the coach arch are two 1/1 top-hinged timber windows, one on each of the upper floors.

According to valuation records from 1836 and 1863, the building originally measured 24.5 x 28 x 26 feet (including the section over the coach arch) and had a 5-foot-high cellar. While the fundamental structure remains consistent with its early 19th-century appearance, the building has undergone significant alterations, most notably the gutting of the interior, an unsympathetic dormer addition, and replacement front window treatment, which have diminished its special architectural merit. The building was delisted on April 28, 2000, and is currently used as an office.