6-8 Newry Street, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4DN

A substantial three-storey, three-bay mid-Georgian town house in the classical tradition, located in Kilkeel. The front elevation is symmetrical, with a central bay that is half the width of the other two bays. A two-storey single-bay extension is attached to the left gable and integrated into the facade. The ground floor of the entire block is lower in height than the floors above, creating a top-heavy appearance. The property is currently divided into two ownerships, with both ground floors converted to commercial use; shop fronts now obscure the lower portions of the first-floor windows.

The central and right bays comprise number 4, while the left bay and extension form numbers 6 and 8, which together create a single architectural composition. The roof is pitched and gabled, with natural slate to numbers 6 and 8, and a tile-coped left gable. A smooth rendered and corbelled chimney rises from the gable. Eaves are corbelled, and rainwater goods are cast iron to numbers 6 and 8. The left gable extension has a lean-to man-made slate roof concealed behind a parapet. The front wall is rock-faced ashlar granite with flush pointing. The extension to the left gable is faced in matching ashlar and finished with two shallow brick-coped gablets positioned just below the eaves of the main block.

The ground floor of number 6 features a mid-Victorian shop front occupying both its bays, with the remaining wall and stall riser rendered and painted smooth. At the ground floor right is a four-panelled door with brass furniture and a narrow transom above, providing access to the upper floors. To its left is a shop window with a painted granite cill, shuttered with two purpose-built four-panelled doors. To the left of these is a recessed four-panelled door with glazed top two panels and a transom above. Narrow timber pilasters frame the doors and window on either side, resting on granite blocks; each pilaster has a raised decorative fin, an astragal forming a frieze, and a moulded head. The extended bay to the left contains a wider shop window with similar detailing and three shutter doors. The pilasters at the extreme left and right of the whole shop front rise as decorative corbels, terminating a long timber fascia with a moulded cornice above.

Each upper floor of the main block contains five openings, while the extension to the left has a single window to each floor. The left bay (numbers 6 and 8) features a pair of 6/6 exposed box sliding sash windows that have not been truncated, unlike those of number 4. On the second floor of all three bays, in line with the openings below, are similar sash windows with painted dressed granite cills. The extension windows are similarly detailed. The left gable is abutted by the two-storey extension; the remaining gable wall is cement-rendered and contains a small 1/1 attic window to the right side. The extension walls are cement-rendered and blank to the left elevation.

The rear elevation of number 6 is abutted at ground floor by a single-storey modern extension. The wall to the left and central bays at first floor is partially rendered snecked granite rubble, with single large stones forming lintels. At the first floor left are two narrow 4/4 sliding sashes. At the second floor, windows are diminished in height and in line with those below; the left window is a modern top-hung replacement, while to its right is a 4/4 sliding sash. The rear gable of the extension is rendered with a small modern window and advances at first floor to meet a two-storey coach house, which encloses the yard.