Hogg's Furnishing Centre Ltd, 34 Merchant's Quay, Newry, Co Down, BT35 8HF

Hogg's Furnishing Centre Ltd is a three-storey building dating from the 1820s to 1830s, located at 34 Merchant's Quay in Newry. It comprises a rendered main block fronting the street and a rubble granite rear return of local interest due to its sawmill associations.

The main block is a three-storey structure with a pitched roof and metal rainwater goods. The walls are rendered cement with lined finish. On the ground floor, a large vehicle entrance with two metal doors provides access to the yard at the rear, with modern shop frontage and entrance door to its right. The first and second floors each have three picture windows in line, with a fourth window on the second floor positioned above the vehicle entrance. These windows appear to be modern insertions. The left and right gables are abutted by adjoining buildings, with an exposed section of the right gable showing cement render. The rear elevation to the left of the coach arch is abutted by the return; the section over the coach arch is cement rendered and has no openings.

The rear return is a three-storey warehouse of a single bay constructed in coursed rubble granite with a brick eaves course. The wall join with the building to its left suggests it was built as an infill between that building and the front block, and that the adjoining building was subsequently raised from two to three storeys. The roof is pitched with natural slate and plastic rainwater goods. All windows have granite cills.

The ground floor openings have been substantially altered. From left to right they comprise: two jamb and lintel windows, a semi-elliptical brick-headed doorway now partly infilled with concrete blocks, two further jamb and lintel windows, a hidden opening possibly a door, and an infilled doorway now containing a window. Some windows are four-paned; others are fixed vertically divided two-paned.

The first floor has seven openings. At the left is a metal-sheeted loading door now leading to a fire escape from the floor above. To its right are six modern two-pane replacement windows. The second floor is almost identical to the first. Above the loading door is a gable, below which is a hole for the cantilevered hoisting beam, now infilled. The second window from the left has been enlarged to accommodate a fire escape door with metal stairs running down the facade. The extreme right-hand window has been infilled. The right gable abuts the front building; the left gable is abutted by a building under construction. The rear elevation is largely obscured by a newly built hotel, with only a cement-rendered section remaining visible.

The building is recorded in the 1838 Valuation Book as a store. By 1863 it belonged to Messrs Carvill, who operated a steam-powered sawmill at the rear of the premises (now demolished). The sawmill ceased operations around 1887. The building is of industrial archaeological interest and is located within a conservation area.