67 - 69 Hill Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DG

Three storey block comprising three properties at 67-69 Hill Street, Newry, with 67a positioned at the corner of Hill Street and Margaret Square.

The building dates from 1820-1839. It appears on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map and valuation records from 1838 confirm it contained three homes. By 1863 it was described as 3⅓ storeys high. The corner section was a licensed shop during the later 19th century.

The roof is gabled to the left and hipped to the right (toward Margaret Square), finished in natural slate with terracotta ridge tiles. Number 69 has two cast iron skylights to its front pitch. Rainwater goods are painted metal.

Both street facades are lined with lime render featuring stepped quoins at the corner and a projecting eaves course. Tie bars run between each floor between 67a and 67b; there is a further tie bar between the first and second floors of 67b, and another below eaves level between 67a and 67b.

Ground floors at numbers 67 and 69 have modern shop fronts. The ground floor of 67a is smooth rendered with a raised base course to both elevations. The Hill Street facade has six unequal segmental headed openings. Five are windows with fixed panes (partly obscured by roller shutter boxes inserted at arch spring level) with rendered cills and plain stall risers. The third opening from the right is a doorway with a sign featuring frieze and cornice above.

Each property has two windows to the upper floors on the Hill Street facade. These are 1/1 sliding sashes with granite cills. The second floor windows to number 69 are unequal sashes, suggesting an original 6/3 configuration. The cill level to 67a is slightly higher. Upper floor windows are diminished in height with painted granite cills.

The right elevation to Margaret Square follows the same wall details as the front. There are five unequal openings to the ground floor; the second from left is a door with a roller shutter in the arch head, the first and fourth openings are windows matching those on Hill Street, the third opening contains a pair of tongue and groove doors, and the fifth opening has an infilled arch head. Upper floors have four window openings to each floor, the fourth from the left having been recently infilled. All remaining openings match those on the Hill Street elevation, though those at the extreme right show signs of subsidence.

The rear cannot be viewed due to rear additions. The property stands within a conservation area.