4 Upper Water Street, (formerly 4 Abbey Way), Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DJ is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 15 December 1981.

4 Upper Water Street, (formerly 4 Abbey Way), Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DJ

WRENN ID
empty-alcove-mallow
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Newry, Mourne and Down
Constituency
Newry and Armagh MP: Dáire Hughes (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
15 December 1981
Address
4 Upper Water Street, (formerly 4 Abbey Way), Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DJ, Carneyhough, BT34 1DJ
Irish grid reference
J 086 265
Coordinates
54.17635, -6.3366
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a narrow, three-story building dating from approximately 1780 to 1799. It is located on the west side of Upper Water Street (formerly Abbey Way) in Newry, County Down, and forms a group with numbers 2 Abbey Way and 1-5 Margaret Street. It was originally part of a prominent group of buildings in the oldest part of the town. Numbers 2 and 4 may have initially been built as a single structure and later subdivided.

The building has a pitched roof covered in artificial slate, with half-round metal gutters and a downpipe shared with number 6. The façade is rendered and lined. A single arched opening on the ground floor is a former coach arch, featuring vee-channelled granite jambs and a semi-elliptical head. This contains a modern shop front with a t+g sheeted fascia and a door to the left, elements of no particular interest. Each upper floor has a 1/1 sliding sash window with horns. Painted granite cills are present on all windows, with the window on the second floor being slightly reduced in height.

The rear elevation was not visible. However, an internal inspection revealed a stairwell return on the right side of the elevation, with a single window on each floor. The ground floor has a modern fixed window; the first floor has a four-paned metal window; and the second floor has a 6/6 sliding sash window. Small metal windows are situated in the stairwell return between the ground and first floors, and again between the first and second floors.

The building was shown on an Ordnance Survey map from 1835 and was valued as a dwelling house at £9 in the 1838 Valuation book, and again in the 1863 valuation book. The building was originally numbered 4 Abbey Way, but the street name was subsequently changed to Upper Water Street. The building is located within a conservation area. It was delisted on 29 March 2006.

Local climate

4 Upper Water Street, (formerly 4 Abbey Way), Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DJ receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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