7 St. Colman’s Park, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2BX

7 St. Colman's Park, Newry

This is the first of seven buildings in a terrace that slopes down St. Colman's Park, positioned at the top end. Originally there were three further similar houses adjoining, but these have been demolished. The surviving properties are all of identical construction, built with squared rubble granite walls brought to courses and pitched natural slate roofs.

This particular building is three storeys high with a basement, and three bays wide. It has a cement-rendered chimney on its left party wall and half-round metal gutters with a down pipe at the left of the street façade.

The front door is positioned at the centre of the façade. It is a modern replacement, four-panelled and painted, with a small rectangular transom light above. Its jambs and head are cement-rendered over brick with a moulded architrave. At the top of the jambs are scrolled consoles that support a projecting entablature. Just to the right of the door is a boot scraper. To the left of the door is a 6/6 sliding sash window. A modern sign is suspended from a metal mounting in the space between the door and window. To the right of the door is a coach arch leading to a lane at the rear of the outbuildings. The arch opening has vee-jointed and stepped ashlar granite jambs, an imposted and keystoned semi-elliptical head, and granite wheel stones at the bottom of each jamb. On the inside cheek of the arch at the left is a blocked-up doorway into the house. There is a one-bay basement at the left side of the building, lit by a single 2/2 sliding sash window with a modern metal security grille.

At first-floor level are three 6/6 sliding sash windows aligned with the ground-floor openings. At second-floor level are three smaller 3/3 sash windows. All windows have granite cills and cement-rendered heads with stepped jambs over brick. Three-piece keystoned lintels sit over the ground and first-floor window heads. Wrought-iron railings, featuring cast-iron urn-topped posts and set over a chamfered granite plinth, run along the top of the basement passage at the front of the house, returning along the exposed side of the entrance steps. Similar railings front the other houses in the terrace and also the corner block fronting John Mitchel Place. There was formerly a railing between the coach arch and front door, but only the granite plinth now survives.

The right gable is abutted by a new building, and the left gable by the adjoining terrace house. The exposed gable sections on both sides are cement-rendered.

The rear wall is similar to that at the front, with half-round metal gutters. There is no outside passage at basement level. At the left is the coach arch opening, here brick-headed. A modern one-storey extension abuts the right two bays, obscuring all the original ground-floor openings. The middle bay has a 3/3 sliding sash window to the half-landing between ground and first floor, and a 6/6 sash on the half-landing between first and second floor. The rooms either side at first floor are lit by 6/6 sashes, and at second floor by 3/3 sashes. All window opening faces are trimmed with unrendered and stepped brick, with cement-rendered reveals. The first-floor windows have metal security grilles. The modern extension has a monopitched slate roof and cement-rendered walls, and links with a two-storey outbuilding at the rear—the first of a continuous block running the length of the terrace.

The outbuilding has a natural slate hipped roof, plastic rainwater goods, and rendered walls. The gable wall bounding the lane through from the coach arch has a modern top-hung window at ground and first-floor level, both with metal security grilles. The back wall facing north has a six-panel stained timber door with a metal security grille in front. The yard elevation is abutted by the link block and has no external openings.