12 Canal Street, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6JB

Three storey townhouse with basement and attic, located on the west side of Canal Street in Newry. The building has two bays and is topped with a pitched natural slate roof featuring a red brick chimney rising from the ridge at the centre, with a single cast iron skylight to each roof pitch. Semicircular metal rainwater goods are fitted with a downpipe positioned to the right of the façade.

The east elevation contains a ground floor shop occupying three-quarters of the façade, with a coach way opening to the right. The shopfront comprises a central door flanked by large fixed windows. Pilasters frame either side of the door, at each end of the shop front, and on either side of the coach way, supporting a flush painted timber fascia. The pilasters and stall risers have been clad in mosaic tiles. The shop windows and door are covered with boarded timber shutters. The coach way features a pair of large tongue-and-groove sheeted painted timber doors in a rectangular opening.

The upper floor walls are finished in painted lined cement render with raised eaves course. Four equally spaced 1/1 sliding sash windows are positioned to each upper floor, all with stop-end-chamfered reveals and heads, and painted granite cills. First floor windows have decorative render hoods with foliated labels. Second floor windows are diminished in height.

The south gable (left) is abutted by the adjacent building (No. 10). The north gable (right) is abutted by a lower property (No. 14), with the exposed wall above lined and rendered.

The rear west elevation is accessed through the coach way. A two-storey return abuts the right three-quarters of this elevation. The exposed wall section to the left comprises the coach way (with a timber lintel) and a small section of wall to its right containing a small 6/6 sliding sash window with bars at ground floor. All rear windows are painted timber with painted granite cills. To the first floor over the coach way is a single 1/1 sliding sash window, and to its right, over the ground floor window, is a second similar window. The second floor has three windows, all diminished in height: a 1/1 sliding sash to the centre, a 1/1 sliding sash with obscured glass to the right, and a modern two-paned casement to the left.

The rear return comprises two stages. The first block is a low two-storey structure with a lean-to slate roof abutting the adjacent property (No. 10). Its wall to the yard is rendered and contains a post-war painted timber and glass door and side light at ground floor, a 1/1 window to a half landing above, and another window above that to the first floor. The second block is taller with a higher lean-to natural slate roof, its yard wall flush with the first block. At ground floor it has an 8/8 sliding sash window, and at first floor a 6/6 sash window. Below the ground floor window is a narrow glazed basement opening. The end gable of this block is abutted by a two-storey outhouse.

The rear outhouse runs parallel to the main block with a coach way opening to the right, aligned with the main coach way. Its pitched natural slate roof sits on rendered walls, except for the right jamb of the coach way which is ashlar granite. The outhouse abuts the rear gable of the return block to the left. The first floor contains an 8/8 sliding sash window with granite cill.

The rear yard is enclosed to the right on entry from the street by a high rendered wall fitted with an iron lamp bracket containing an ill-fitting antique lamp.