43 Downshire Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1EE

43 Downshire Road, Newry is a one and a half storey house with semi-basement, built between 1940 and 1959. It is identical to its neighbour at number 41. The building is a classic inter-war bungalow displaying many period features, though it is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest.

The house is three bays wide and symmetrical in plan, sited on the east side of Downshire Road. The roof is of artificial slate with a hipped form, overhanging eaves, plain bargeboards, and terracotta ridges. A gabled dormer projects from the front pitch, with two cast iron skylights positioned to the rear. Ogee profiled metal rainwater gutters run along the façade, with semicircular guttering to the rear.

The left and right bays of the front elevation project forward as bay windows with gabled roofs that tie into the main front pitch. Stepped chimneys rise from each side wall, their bases linked to the roof by small tiled gabled infill sections. The chimneys are rendered in painted wet dash with red brick caps. All walls are faced in painted wet dash render over a chamfered red brick basecourse. The ground slopes to the rear, creating a semi-basement with brick walls.

Three cement steps lead to the main entrance positioned centrally on the front façade. The front door is painted timber with two raised and fielded panels at the bottom and a glazed panel above featuring leaded diamond glazing inset with Art Nouveau corner panels. Two narrow modern sidelights with obscured glass and a narrow transom flank the door.

The projecting bays to either side of the entrance are identical in design. Each contains a rectangular window opening with concrete cill to the front, fitted with four single paned metal casement windows with leaded transoms above. Each transom displays Art Nouveau floral glazing. The casements sit within a timber frame. Above each bay is a small fixed vertical leaded window in the gable.

A gabled dormer rises directly above the main entrance. Its walls are finished in dashed cement render with leaded cheeks and contain three metal casements, each with two paned leaded transoms.

The left elevation has a projecting chimney breast with a recessed central panel. Single window openings flank this breast: to the left is a pair of metal framed casements with plain transoms and painted concrete cill; to the right is a single casement with leaded transom. The right elevation mirrors this arrangement in identical construction.

The rear elevation is abutted on the left by a two-storey flat roof return. At basement level on the right is a painted timber up-and-over garage door with concrete painted lintel above. Four window openings serve the ground floor, each with transoms: from left to right these are a three-pane metal window with leaded glass, a two-pane casement with obscured glass, and two single-pane casement windows.

Open concrete stairs rise at the left to a door serving the upper floor of the return. The return's basement walls are smooth painted render, while the ground floor is wet dashed. A window serves both ground and first floor of the rear wall. The ground floor window is a two paned metal casement with top opening transoms. The basement right cheek of the return contains two openings: the left holds a timber up-and-over door painted with tongue and groove boards; the right is doorless. A four panelled painted timber door is located at first floor right. The left cheek of the rear return wall shows the end section to be a later extension. The original portion has a 1/1 metal window at ground floor and a two paned metal casement window with transoms at basement level. The extension's first floor contains a single fixed window with obscured glass. Two ventilating pipes rise from the basement wall.

The front garden is enclosed by wet dashed walls with ramped ends to gate pillars at the front path and driveway to the left of the house. Two pillars with pyramidal caps mark the entrance path. Ramped walls extend to either end, with a post to the right forming the driveway shared with the adjoining house.

The building does not appear in Valuation books prior to 1930, confirming its post-1930 construction date.

The building is currently in commercial use as an office.