9 Downshire Place, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DZ

9 Downshire Place is the second building from the left in a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey houses with semi-basements and attics, located on the east side of Downshire Road in Newry. The building is four openings wide at its front elevation.

The pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with two cast iron skylights to the rear pitch. Cement rendered chimneys with projecting caps sit at each gable, shared with the adjacent properties. Rainwater goods are semicircular plastic with metal downpipes to left and right, also shared with adjacent properties.

The front facade has painted walls with line rendering and a projecting rendered eaves course. Two granite steps lead to a granite paved platform in front of the main entrance, which is positioned in the second opening from the left on the ground floor. Original palmette-headed cast iron railings flank the sides of the platform. Cement stairs to the right lead down to the basement passage.

The entrance door is painted timber with a beaded muntin and four bolection-moulded panels, fitted with assorted ironmongery and a modern intercom box. The door frames are reeded timber. The door is flanked by two three-quarter attached granite Tuscan columns supporting a moulded granite entablature. Above this sits a rectangular lead Greek Revival transom light. The opening has one-piece moulded granite jambs with scrolled consoles at the top supporting a moulded granite cornice. A second intercom box sits on the left column, and a modern small plastic sign is positioned on the wall to the right of the door.

The ground floor features two 1/1 sliding sash windows to the right of the door and one identical window to the left. All windows lack horns and have painted granite cills. Three modern four-paned timber casement windows with bottom transoms, granite cills and metal security bars serve the basement level, positioned in line with those above. Directly under the main door platform is a porch dividing the basement passage. The right cheek of the porch has a modern timber door with sidelight; the left cheek has a small 1/1 top-hung modern window.

The first floor contains four equally spaced windows identical to the ground floor ones but diminished in height. The left and right gables form party walls with the adjacent properties at numbers 7 and 11.

The rear elevation presents a different character due to the sloping topography of the site, with the basement sitting at ground level. The rear wall is smooth unpainted render with a projecting eaves course. A two-storey lean-to abuts the second bay from the left.

At basement level on the rear, the left side features a modern timber and glass door with side and transom lights. Immediately to its right, under the abutting room, is a one-pane modern window. Further right is a sheeted plywood door serving as the exit from the basement stairs. At the far right is a four-paned timber casement. Between basement and ground floor, just left of centre, is a modern top-hung window with concrete cill serving the basement stairs. The ground floor right has a single 3/3 sliding sash without horns. At the half landing between ground and first floors on the left bay is a tall 1/1 sliding sash window serving the internal stairs. The first floor has single 6/6 sliding sashes to the left and right. Between the first floor right window and the half landing window below is a small modern casement serving a toilet, which has no grille over it.

The lean-to return features an artificial slate roof, plastic rainwater goods and cement rendered walls supported on two rendered corner piers over the basement of the main block. Its front face has two sliding sashes with horns to the ground floor: that to the left is 1/1 and to the right is 2/2.

The rear garden is enclosed on its sides and rear by granite rubble walls with a gate to the rear opening onto a lane leading to Church Avenue.

The front garden is enclosed by a chamfered granite base wall where railings have been removed. A cement path from the street leads to the front door, with small lawns and mature hedges to either side.