1B Upper Edward Street, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6AX

A two-storey industrial building of 24 bays by 4 bays deep, fronting the north side of Upper Edward Street in Newry. The building has a flat reinforced concrete roof with a shallow coped parapet. The walls are constructed of random rubble granite, snecked and brought to courses, with stepped quoins and parapet copings of finely dressed granite blocks.

The principal façade, which faces south, is 24 openings wide, each corresponding to an internal bay. The wall is heightened slightly on the first two bays at the left. All openings have stepped red brick jambs and shallow segmental brick heads unless otherwise stated.

There are five doors to the ground floor. In the third bay is a painted metal sliding door with a small brick-trimmed opening above (now infilled) to light the half-landing of the internal stairway, with jambs partly rendered in cement. In the fifth bay is a painted plywood door with an infilled transom light and cement-rendered surround; it may originally have been a window and leads to the ground floor only. Filling the seventh and eighth bays is a modern roller shutter door with a seemingly original concrete head. In the thirteenth bay is a metal-sheeted door leading to a stairway to the first floor, with a small light over to the stairwell half-landing now obscured by a modern sign. In the fourteenth and fifteenth bays is a door as in the third bay.

The remaining openings are timber-framed windows with painted granite cills, all externally fitted with modern metal grilles and fitted internally with older security bars. Most windows have eight panes in a 2x4 arrangement, with the four upper ones opening; in some cases the top section has been replaced with a two-paned opener. All first floor openings contain identical windows in line with those at ground floor, but with unpainted cills. Across the frontage are two strips of metal to which a fascia board was formerly attached. Electric street lights are cantilevered from the wall head between bays two and three, and between bays 13 and 14. A metal sign is positioned over the door in bay 13 with a projecting sign above and to its right. An Ordnance Survey benchmark is located at the extreme bottom right.

The right gable is four openings wide (two per internal bay). At ground floor are four windows with unpainted cills. At first floor right is a painted sheeted double-leaf loading door with rendered jambs and head. To the left of the door are three windows in line with those below. All windows are as the front façade. Between the heads of the middle two windows is a brick-trimmed circular window. Most of the parapet coping has disappeared on this side. A circular plastic or metal rainwater pipe runs down the wall immediately to the left of this opening.

The rear façade is abutted from much of its length at the left by a one-storey extension. A brick stairwell on the sixth bay from the left is enveloped by this extension. At first floor there is a loading door approximately central and a second near the right-hand end. Metal wall washers are positioned between the first floor window heads. Those sections of wall not abutted have windows as the front. The extension has a monopitch roof on its left section and flat roof to the right, with cement-rendered walls without openings.

The left gable is abutted by a single-storey extension. There are four windows to first floor as the main façade. The extension has a corrugated asbestos-cement monopitch roof and rendered walls. Its street frontage has a painted façade with parapet, in line with the main block. A modern metal sign is located at first floor right.

Behind the mill is an office block, now entirely refurbished both outside and in.