1 Arthur Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1HR

A two-storey, three-bay symmetrical house on the east side of Arthur Street, with a hipped artificial slate roof and cement rendered central chimney rising from the central valley. The eaves are boxed and overhanging with modern vents.

The west-facing façade is rendered with a high raised chamfered base course. The ground floor displays banded rustication with banded quoins to the corners and a continuous cill course at first floor level. The first floor features lined render with raised stepped render decorative quoins. A single granite step, flanked by chamfered walls rising to base course height, leads to the main entrance in the centre bay. The door is four-panelled painted timber with flush mouldings to the panels, set between a pair of timber Tuscan columns supporting a timber entablature. Above this is a cobweb fanlight, all contained within a semicircular-headed opening with roll-moulded chamfered jambs and flanking pilasters with Grecian revival heads supporting a moulded cornice. The ground floor left and right bays each contain a 6/6 sliding sash window without horns, with unpainted granite cills and band-rusticated heads. The first floor has five equally spaced 6/3 sliding sashes with horns and granite cills linked by a render cill course.

The right elevation is lined cement render with a rendered cill course. It contains four equally spaced openings per floor. At ground floor are three 6/6 sliding sashes matching those on the façade and a pair of French windows in the second opening from the right, comprising three-paned timber doors with a fixed transom above, set within an enlarged window opening. The first floor has four 6/3 sliding sashes matching those on the façade. The left elevation mirrors the right.

The rear elevation is lined render. The right bay wall recesses slightly and is abutted by a one-and-a-half storey return. A single-storey outhouse abuts the left. The gables of these returns are joined by a one-and-a-half storey outhouse, forming an enclosed yard immediately behind the main house. The centre of the main block's ground floor has a modern glazed timber door with sidelights in a segmental arched opening. Above at first floor is a 6/6 sliding sash with spoked head and granite cill.

The right return has a pitched natural slate roof and lined cement rendered walls. Its yard elevation contains a pair of modern timber and glass doors at the centre and a modern four-paned casement at first floor. The garden elevation has a pair of modern 6/6 casements to the right and a modern tongue-and-groove sheeted door to the left.

The left return has a hipped natural slate roof with a blank garden elevation. Its yard elevation contains a small two-paned casement window.

The rear outhouse has a hipped natural slate roof and cement rendered walls. Its yard façade has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door at ground floor left and a small two-paned casement at right. At first floor is a small four-paned casement. Its right gable contains a modern garage door.

The setting features a mature landscaped garden with bushes and lawns. A winding stepped path rises from Arthur Street to the front door. The garden to the right has been excavated into a winding picturesque gully accessed from the garden at the right elevation. The gully is lined with an overgrown rockery terminating in a grotto below the front path, which houses a garden bench and is rock-lined to give a cavernous appearance. At the right corner of the gully is a circular pond with fountain, now drained and infilled with rocks.

The boundary walls are mostly high smooth render with projecting render coping. The side boundary on the Arthur Street side retains remnants of polychromatic brick walling. The frontage to Arthur/Talbot Street has central metal gates supported on tall square slender granite piers, with high walls on either side comprising part smooth render and part large granite blocks, terminated at each end with ashlar granite piers.