St. Colman's Hall, Trevor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DN

St. Colman's Hall is a two-storey curved facade of Newry granite in highly decorated Lombardo-Gothic Revival style, flanked by coach arches that sweep around the east side of Trevor Hill. The facade fronts a modern hall of no historic or architectural merit, with a flat felted roof behind and parapet gutter. Metal downpipes run down the left and right elevations.

The facade walls are constructed of ashlar granite on a projecting base course with reconstituted stone dressings. Three foliated stringcourses run horizontally: at ground floor window arch springing level, across the upper part of the ground floor and rising to form pediments to the coach arches, and at first floor window arch springing level. A plain moulded string forms the cill level of the first floor windows, continuing to abut the coach arch pediments. Just below eaves level is a narrow moulded stringcourse with a plain granite frieze above. The eaves feature a projecting cornice supported on corbel brackets, between which are square panels with Gothic-headed recesses. The parapet resting on the cornice comprises three equal panels of fretted stonework in an interlocking ring design, with pairs of panelled posts between each panel and at each end, each post having a segmental head.

The ground floor contains five equally spaced semicircular-headed windows. Each window consists of two casements under a fanlight, set within colonetted reveals. Each colonette rests on a plinth block and has a foliated head at arch spring level, connected to a continuous foliated spring. The arch intrados has a roll-moulded chamfer. All windows rest on a continuous moulded cill course, which stops at the ends of the outer windows. In the spandrels between each window and at either end of the facade are foliated roundels, each with a hood mould over. The roundels between the first and second windows from left and right are larger but share similar details.

The first floor contains three equally spaced pairs of windows. Each window has two casements with a fanlight over. Between each pair is a colonette with demi-colonettes to each jamb. Each colonette has a square plinth block and foliated head at arch spring level connected to a continuous foliated spring. The semicircular-headed arch over the transoms has a roll-moulded chamfer. Over each pair of windows is a segmental-headed panel with roll-moulded reveal and a raised figurative keystone. Within the panel, above the central colonette of each pair, is a moulded roundel panel, with foliated panels decorating the spandrels on either side. The stringcourse below eaves level rests on the keystones above each panel. Between each window and at the ends are four decorative roundels, similar to the larger ones on the ground floor with hood mould over and foliated relief.

At either end of the ground floor, walls continue rising into gables, each containing a semicircular-headed coach arch. The foliated stringcourse between ground and first floor continues across the flanking gables as a coping. The cill course of the first floor windows continues as a wall head to meet the gable above each arch and continues on the other side. Each archway has a large projecting figurative keystone, a curved reveal and voussoirs, and is fitted with a pair of post-war wrought iron gates. Roundel panels (matching those on the facade) flank either side of each arch, with a larger one in the gable above the keystone. The right arch bears raised letters reading 'Saint Colmans Hall' arranged in a shallow curve above the keystone.

Everything behind the facade is post-World War II. The side walls are wet-dashed. The main entrance is at ground floor right, accessed through the arch into a small paved area, featuring two pairs of timber doors with a projecting central ticket booth under a projecting canopy. At first floor, the wall is fully glazed with occasional panels of orange and blue glass. The left arch leads to a service yard.