Gerry Mac’s (Public House), 7 Canal Street, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6JB

Gerry Mac's is a three-storey granite building with basement and attic, located on the east side of Canal Street in Newry. It comprises three bays and four openings wide. The building was formerly abutted on its right by an almost identical three-storey structure (three openings wide), which was demolished following destruction by fire. The pitched natural slate roof is topped with a rendered chimney to each gable, and the front elevation has leaded gutters.

The principal elevation faces west onto Canal Street. The wall is constructed of squared granite rubble in regular courses with projecting eaves and a raised base at ground floor left only. The ground floor left section is painted.

The ground floor is divided into two distinct sections. The left half comprises a shop front with a three-paned window (with transoms over) and a painted timber pilaster to its left. To the right of this is a partly glazed four-panel door with a tripartite transom over. Both the window and door sections have painted render jambs, and a painted timber fascia board reads "Gerry Mac's". A modern suspended metal sign is mounted between ground and first floors at the left. The right half of the ground floor contains a four-panelled bolection-moulded timber door (now boarded up) with a rectangular transom over and a painted timber pilaster at its right. An ashlar-dressed semicircular-headed coach arch occupies the extreme right, containing a pair of tongue-and-groove sheeted timber doors with a wicket gate. The arch has dressed granite jambs and head with imposts, partly obscured by remnants of a fascia board.

The first and second floors each have four equally spaced 1/1 sliding sashes with exposed boxes. All windows feature flat granite heads with splayed voussoirs and granite cills. The second-floor windows are diminished in height, with the top sash double the size of the bottom one, suggesting these were possibly once 6/3 glazed.

The left gable is abutted by a lower building. The exposed portion is mostly red brick, with a section towards the street in granite. A small four-paned fixed timber window is positioned in the attic at its right side. The right gable, now wet-dashed, was formerly the party wall with the adjacent property; fireplaces and room divisions remain evident.

The rear elevation is three bays wide and constructed of granite rubble brought to courses, except the middle bay which is red brick. The rooms to the upper floors of the left bay, formerly belonging to the adjoining property, have been incorporated following the fire. A remnant of the back wall of the adjoining property stands, mostly demolished. The left bay has a horizontal timber lintel at ground floor spanning the coach way through to the street. At first floor is a 6/6 sliding sash, and a diminished-height 6/3 sash at second floor. All windows to this façade are trimmed as the front. A single-storey modern flat-roof extension abuts the middle and right bays. The middle bay contains half-landing windows: a 6/6 sash between ground and first floors, a 6/1 sash between first and second floors (formerly 6/6), and a small modern window between second floor and attic. The right bay is abutted at first floor left by a small flat-roof extension. The head of an original first-floor window is just visible. At second floor are two 2/2 vertically-divided sliding sashes. The ground-floor extension has rendered walls with a metal-sheeted door to the yard but no windows. The first-floor extension has a single metal-framed window.