8 Sandys Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1EN

This is one of a pair of three-storey, two-bay houses situated at the end of a terrace along the south side of Sandys Street in Newry. The houses, along with number 7, have undergone alterations and now exhibit mostly plain features. While much of the original internal detail has been lost, the building is recognised for its contribution to the streetscape and is included within the area’s conservation designation.

The roof is pitched and covered with artificial slates, with exposed ends to the rafters, and features a modern red-brick chimney running parallel to the ridge on the left side. Semicircular metal rainwater goods and a downpipe are located on the left. The street façade has painted, lined, and rendered walls. The main entrance, on the right, is a four-panel stained timber door with a transom light above. It is framed by a keyblocked head under a bracketed mould entablature. To the left of the entrance is a single-storey, canted bay with a moulded cornice and parapet around the flat roof, incorporating a downpipe on the left. This bay contains a central 2/2 sliding sash window, along with 1/1 sash windows on each cheek. At the first and second floors, there are two 2/2 sliding windows each; the top windows are reduced in height. All windows have painted granite cills. The door is offset to the right of the window above. A rendered and chamfered plinth is surmounted by a rendered brick wall, which separates the house from the footpath. The left and right gables are shared party walls with the adjoining properties at HB16/28/101A and HB16/28/100A. The rear elevation has rendered walls and a 1/1 top-hung window on each floor. A two-storey return on the left side has a flat felt roof and rendered walls, featuring a door on the right cheek and modern windows with top-hung transom lights at ground and first floor level, also on the right cheek. The yard contains rendered lean-to outhouses with painted sheeted doors.

The building first appears in the Valuation revision book of 1879, and was then owned by William Nesbitt, who was responsible for several other houses in the area (HB16/28/083, /084A,B, /100A).

The building was constructed between 1860 and 1879, and previously recorded in Windsor Hill ward as HB16/26/042. It was delisted on March 29, 2006.