Building between nos. 9-10, Abbey Yard, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2EG

A long two-storey link block forming part of a classical Georgian group in Abbey Yard, Newry. The building spans seven openings across its width and is roofed with pitched natural slate incorporating a modern extract vent to the right of the rear pitch. Semicircular metal rainwater goods with a downpipe run centrally on both front and rear elevations.

The front façade is rendered in painted, lined finish with a raised broad eaves course and stepped, raised render quoins flanking each side. The central main entrance comprises a modern six-panelled door set between three-piece granite jambs with a three-piece lintel bearing a keyblock above. A modern security alarm box is mounted on the wall above the door. To the right sits a pair of modern metal gates within a semicircular-headed coach arch. The arch features stepped granite quoins to the jambs and head, with the arch head partially infilled with vertical tongued-and-grooved sheeting to accommodate the first floor level. Granite wheel stones stand to each side of the opening.

The ground floor displays five 1/1 sliding sash windows with horns and painted granite cills—two positioned to the right of the coach arch and three to the left of the front door. The first floor contains seven 1/1 sliding sash windows with granite cills, all with horns. One is positioned directly over the coach arch, with four to its left aligned to the right of the ground floor windows and door. Two additional windows with lower cills than the others sit to the right, directly above the ground floor windows.

The areas to the left of the front door and to the right of the coach arch are enclosed by plain spiked railings with urn-topped posts resting on a chamfered granite base wall. Steps to the basement passage of number 9 descend below the ground floor right window. The coachway is paved with granite setts and paviors.

The left and right gables form party walls with numbers 9 and 10. Within the coach arch, the walls are lined render with a sheeted timber door to the right cheek on entry.

The rear elevation displays painted, lined render with a broad raised eaves course. The main entrance is positioned right of centre within a modern tongued-and-grooved sheeted gabled porch with an artificial slate roof and diamond window in its gable; the entrance way is on the right cheek. To the left of the porch is the semicircular-headed coach arch with its head partially infilled and granite wheel stones to each side. Two 6/6 sliding sash windows with horns and painted granite cills stand to the left of the arch. To the right of the porch are two metal-framed, twelve-paned windows, and at the extreme right is a sheet metal escape door below the overhanging lean-to of the boiler house abutting the right gable of number 10.

The first floor rear contains nine windows. From left to right: a 1/1 sliding sash, a 2/2 sash window, a 1/1 sliding sash, and a 1/1 sliding sash over the coach arch. Above the wall between the coach and porch sits a tripartite window comprising a vertically divided 2/2 sash flanked by two horizontally divided 2/2 sliding sashes. The remainder of the wall to the right features one horizontally divided 2/2 sliding sash followed by three equally spaced 6/6 sliding sashes. All have painted cills.

The coach arch provides access to the rears of all buildings in the complex. The rear area is given over to car parking for numbers 7–10.