8 Manse Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4BN

A unified architectural group of brick built late Victorian two storey (+ attic) houses, set in a planned communal landscaped setting on western side of Manse Road. There are two groups; Nos. 6 and 4 to right and Nos 12,10 and 8 to left; all share common details: No 8 is two bays wide and the right one of three terraced houses. Pitched natural slate roof with red clay crested ridges, and a tiled verge to right gable. Decorative (flues delineated by raised bricks) red brick chimney to right gable. Eaves are three courses of decorative brick supporting half round metal gutters. To front pitch, over left bay near ridge is a cast iron skylight. Walls are red brick in English garden wall bond with yellow brick detailing and a chamfered granite base course. Two storey canted right bay advanced slightly under a large gable. Between ground and first floor are two courses of decorative yellow brick separated by two courses of red brick, and the right corner has stepped granite quoins. To ground floor left is a modern painted timber and glass porch (which continues to No.10), and abuts the left cheek of the advanced bay. It has a modern four panelled glazed and door and a glazed roof. The original walls within are painted white. To first floor left, over porch is a narrow 1/1 sliding sash window. The right bay has a two storey canted bay window abutting its advanced gable. The gable has details as façade with timber bargeboard with decorative cartouches and spiked finial. To centre of gable is a recessed occulus inset with a small window. The canted bay window has red brick walls, moulded granite cills, and a corbelled concrete roof. It is two storeys and there is no string course at first floor; instead there are recessed brick panels dressed with yellow brick, two to front and one on each cheek. Left gable forms party wall with No.10. Right gable is cement rendered with no openings to ground and first floors. In gable at attic level, to left and right sides, set in original openings are single modern 1/1 top-hung plastic windows with plain dressed granite cills. Rear elevation has a two storey return with attic, filling 1 1/2 bays with a single storey return beyond. This has a concrete tiled roof. All rear windows are plastic. Setting: at front is a common landscaped lawn with driveways dissecting. A boundary wall in granite rubble with embattled coping encloses the whole common site. This has a pair of square gate piers to Manse Road but gates are gone. To rear (beyond carriageway) is a rear garden with 1930’s garage, the finials of which may have come from the original front porch.