8 Cloughmore Terrace, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3HP

8 Cloughmore Terrace is one of eight identical three-storey, two-bay houses forming a terrace on the north side of Church Street in Warrenpoint, dating to the late 19th century (first appearing in the Valuation Book of 1879). The terrace remains a significant townscape feature, though it has been affected by alterations. This particular house, the right one of the eight, has been substantially modified and is now subdivided into three flats.

The building has a pitched natural slate roof hipped to the right end, with a large rendered chimney to the left end of the ridge and two further chimneys on the rear pitch—one at wall head and one just below the ridge. The rendered and painted walls are lined with stepped quoins to the right corner and feature a continuous cill course at first-floor level. Moulded render eaves carry ogee rainwater goods.

The front elevation is divided into two bays of unequal width. The left, narrower bay contains the main entrance set within a semicircular-headed opening with moulded stucco architrave and decorative key block. The door itself is panelled with a beaded muntin and two raised, fielded and bolection-moulded bottom panels beneath a single acid-etched top panel, with a stained glass radial fanlight above. Above the doorway is a single 1/1 uPVC window at first-floor level with an architrave matching the doorcase, and at second-floor level a single 1/1 timber sliding sash window, slightly diminished in height. The right bay features a canted bay window rising the full height of the facade, with a canted roof tied into the main roof and sharing common eaves. Each face of the bay contains 1/1 windows; those at ground and first-floor levels are uPVC, whilst those at second-floor level are timber sliding sashes with horns, also slightly diminished in height. A small front garden is enclosed by a finely dressed granite dwarf wall carrying modern hoop-topped railings.

The right elevation fronts onto Great George's Street North. It has walls matching the front elevation with stepped quoins to left and right sides at upper floors, though ground-floor right continues without quoins into the rear return. The ground floor contains two openings: a uPVC window to the left and a semicircular-headed coachway to the right, detailed with similar architrave and keystone as the front doorcase. The coachway has been infilled with a rendered wall and modern uPVC window with sheeted head above. First-floor windows are 1/1 uPVC casements, and second-floor windows are 1/1 sliding sashes.

The left gable is a party wall with the adjacent house. The rear elevation is abutted to the left by a two-storey rear return. The remaining rear wall is rendered and painted to ground and first-floor levels only. It has a modern door at ground-floor right, a 2/2 sash window to first floor, and between first and second floors a modern glazed escape door served by a large metal staircase, which also serves a door on the right cheek of the rear return. The return is rendered and painted with modern windows, some in enlarged openings. The left cheek facing Great George's Street North has three windows to ground floor and two to first floor; the right cheek has a single window at ground floor and the escape door at first floor, with the end gable blank. The rear of the back yard has a sheeted door onto Great George's Street North and is enclosed by a two-storey outbuilding of no architectural interest.

All front windows of this house have been altered, and the interior is much modified. These alterations considerably detract from the building's original character, though as part of the terrace group it retains townscape significance.