7 Cloughmore Terrace, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3HP

7 Cloughmore Terrace is the second house from the right in a terrace of eight identical houses built between 1860 and 1879 on the north side of Church Street in Warrenpoint. It is a three-storey, two-bay house of late 19th-century character, although it has been altered and has lost some of its original fabric.

The front (west) elevation is faced with rendered and painted walls. The roof is pitched natural slate with a large rendered chimney to the left end of the ridge, shared with the adjoining house. The eaves are defined by a moulded render course carrying ogee rainwater goods. A continuous cill course runs at first floor level across the façade.

The left bay is narrower than the right and contains the main entrance. This is set within a semicircular-headed opening with a moulded stucco architrave and decorative key block. The door itself is four-panelled with beaded muntin and raised, fielded and bolection moulded panels. Above it is a plainly glazed radial fanlight. Directly above the entrance to each upper floor is a single 1/1 sliding sash window. The first floor window has an architrave matching the doorcase below; the second floor window is slightly diminished in height.

The right bay contains a canted bay window rising the full height of the building. Each face of the bay is fitted with a 1/1 sliding sash window with horns, with the second floor examples slightly reduced in height. The bay has its own canted roof which ties into the main roof and shares the common eaves.

The front garden is small and enclosed by a finely dressed granite dwarf wall topped with hoop-ended railings. The railings feature alternating foliated finials.

The left and right gables are party walls shared with the adjacent houses. The rear (north-east) elevation is abutted on the right bay by a two-storey return. The exposed rear walls are rendered but unpainted. On the left bay, each floor has a 2/2 vertically divided sliding sash window with horns and painted cill; the second floor example is diminished in height. Between the first and second floors on the right, there is a similar half-landing window.

The two-storey return has a pitched natural slate roof with an advanced eaves course carrying plastic rainwater goods. Its walls are rendered and painted. The left side of the return has a selection of modern stained timber top-hung casement windows. A small 2/2 sliding sash window is positioned to the first floor right. The end gable contains a large modern stained timber casement window to the ground floor and a tiny casement window to the first floor right.

To the rear of the small domestic yard stands a two-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and dashed, painted walls. It has a single window to each floor: a 2/2 sliding sash window to the ground floor and a six-paned casement with former timber slats to the first floor. A small lean-to toilet is attached to the left end of the front elevation of the outbuilding.

The house first appears in the Valuation Book entry for 1879. The terrace, although affected by alterations, remains a significant architectural set piece in the town. The building is of local historical interest and retains group value as part of the terrace, despite the loss of some original fabric and the alterations to the rear elevation and internal arrangement.