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

One and a half storey house with semi-basement on the east side of Downshire Road in Newry. It is identical to no. 41. The building is three bays and symmetrical in plan.

The roof is artificial slate with a hipped form and overhanging eaves, plain bargeboards, and terracotta ridges. A gabled dormer projects from the front pitch, and two cast iron skylights sit on the rear pitch. Metal rainwater gutters with ogee profile run to the façade, and semicircular gutters to the rear. The left and right bays of the front façade contain bay windows with gabled roofs that tie into the front pitch. Chimneys rise from each side wall, their bases linked to the roof by small tiled gabled infill; the chimneys are stepped, painted wet dash with red brick caps. All walls are painted wet dash render over a chamfered red brick basecourse.

Ground level falls to the rear to provide a semi-basement with brickwork walls. Three cement steps lead to the main entrance at the centre bay of the front façade. The front door is painted timber with two raised and fielded bottom panels and a glazed panel above with leaded diamond glazing inset with Art Nouveau corner panels. The door has two narrow modern sidelights with obscured glass and a narrow transom over.

The bays to the left and right of the façade project forward and are identical. Each contains, to the front, a rectangular opening with concrete cill. Both have four single-paned metal casement windows with leaded transoms over each. All casements are set within a timber frame, and the transom lights have Art Nouveau floral glazing. In the gable above is a small fixed vertical leaded window.

Rising from the roof directly above the main entrance is a gabled dormer with plain bargeboards. The walls are dashed cement render with leaded cheeks. It contains three metal casements, each with two-paned leaded transoms.

The left elevation wall has a projecting chimney breast with a recessed central panel. To either side of the chimney breast are single window openings. The left contains 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 is of identical construction and has single metal casements with leaded glass transoms to each side of the chimney breast.

The rear elevation is abutted at the left by a two-storey flat-roof return. At the basement right is a painted timber up-and-over garage door with a concrete painted lintel above. There are four window openings to the ground floor, each with transoms over: from left to right, a three-pane metal window with leaded glass; a two-pane casement window with obscured glass; and two single-pane casement windows. Open concrete stairs rise at the left to a door at the upper floor of the return. The return walls are smooth painted render to the basement and wet dashed to the ground floor. The rear wall has windows to the ground and first floors. The ground floor window is a two-paned metal casement with top opening transoms. The right cheek of the return at basement has two openings: that to the left contains a tongued and grooved timber painted door; that to the right is doorless. To the first floor right is a four-panelled painted timber door. The left cheek of the rear return wall shows construction evidence that the end section of the return is a later extension. At the ground floor of the original portion is a 1/1 metal window. At basement level of the extension is a two-paned metal casement window with transoms. To the first floor is a single fixed window glazed with obscured glass. Two ventilating pipes rise from the basement wall.

Walls to the front garden are wet dashed with ramped ends to gate pillars at the front path and driveway to the left of the house. Two pillars to the entrance path have pyramidal caps. Ramped walls to either end, with a post to the right forming the driveway with the adjoining house.