13 St. Colman’s Park, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2BX

St Colman's Park, Newry

13 St Colman's Park is the fourth house from the top in a terrace of seven identical buildings that slope down the street. The house is grade B1 listed.

The building is three storeys high with a basement, and two bays wide. It has pitched natural slate roofs and squared rubble granite walls brought to courses. A rendered chimney sits on its left party wall, with half-round gutters that share a metal down pipe with the adjacent property at number 15. The house is stepped down slightly from number 11 and sits at the same height as number 15.

At ground floor, the right bay contains a four-panel painted timber door, a modern replacement with a small rectangular transom light above. The door head and jambs are cement rendered with a moulded architrave, and the jambs are topped with scrolled consoles supporting a projecting entablature. To the left of the door is an 8/8 sliding sash window, with a large three-pane picture basement window underneath. The basement walls have been rendered. The left bay contains matching fenestration. At first floor are two 6/6 sliding sash windows in line with the ground floor openings. At second floor are three smaller 3/3 sash windows. All windows have granite cills and cement-rendered heads with stepped jambs over brick. Three-piece keystoned lintels sit above the ground and first floor window heads. All the windows are modern reproductions.

Wrought iron railings with cast-iron urn-topped posts run along the top of the basement passage at the front of the house, returning along the exposed side entrance. The railings rest on a chamfered granite plinth. Similar railings front the other houses in the terrace and also the corner block fronting John Mitchel Place.

The left and right gables are abutted by similar buildings. At the rear, walls are rendered to basement and ground floor, and unrendered above, with half-round metal rainwater goods.

A one-storey extension abuts the left side. There is an outside passage to the basement, which has a two-pane modern door at right and a modern 1/1 top-hung window at left. On the ground floor of the extension's right elevation is a modern three-pane window, above which is a 6/6 sliding sash to first floor and a 3/3 top-hung window to the top floor. Above the extension are a 6/6 sash at the half landing between ground and first floor, and a 6/6 sash between first and second floors. All window openings have brick heads and stepped jambs; some have three-piece keystoned lintels above their heads. The extension has a flat corrugated-asbestos roof and pebble-dashed walls, with a modern door on its back wall and a modern window on the right cheek.

A two-storey outbuilding runs along the back of the premises as part of a continuous block extending the length of the terrace. It has a natural slate pitched gable roof and coursed rubble granite walls with missing rainwater goods. On the north-facing elevation, a semi-elliptical-headed brick-trimmed coach arch with double-leaf tongued-and-grooved doors (now partially boarded over) sits at left on the ground floor, with a sheeted timber loading door directly above. At right on both floors are infilled ventilation slits. Both gables are abutted by similar outbuildings. The yard elevation has a sheeted timber door at right on the ground floor and a window opening at left. Above the latter, at first floor, is an opening secured with original vertical wooden bars. The roof is ruinous.