15 Windsor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1ER

A two-storey, three-bay rendered house on the east side of Windsor Hill, built in the 19th century. The building is distinguished by its sophisticated Victorian classical detailing combined with Gothic revival elements.

The roof is a double-hipped natural slate roof with a central valley and boxed overhanging eaves, topped by two rendered and coped chimneys rising parallel to the facade from behind the ridge of the front roof.

All elevations—front, left and right—are rendered over a raised chamfered base course. The ground floor features band rustication, and the first floor is lined with stepped render quoins. A raised render platband runs between the two storeys.

The main entrance is set centrally on the front facade, approached by three moulded granite steps. The doorway itself is exceptionally detailed. The door is a four-panelled timber specimen with the top two panels larger than the bottom two. It features a beaded muntin and raised and fielded bolection-moulded panels with original brass furniture. The door is housed in a quarter-chamfered timber frame with three transoms and a panelled apron side light. The entire composition is set within a segmental-headed opening with a roll-moulded chamfered head. This opening is flanked by panelled render pilasters with moulded heads which continue into the reveal. Panelled render corbels support a moulded cornice at the top, above which sits a balconette comprising a Gothic revival cast-iron railing over a plinth and terminated by panelled piers.

At ground floor level, the left and right bays each contain single-storey canted bays. These have raised base courses matching the main elevation and are surmounted by moulded cornices with raised fretted parapets. Each canted bay contains a 1/1 sliding sash window with horns, sharing a common granite cill.

Above the door on the first floor is a pair of 1/1 semicircular-headed sliding sash windows with horns. Above each canted bay at first-floor level is a 1/1 sliding sash window with horns.

The right elevation is two bays wide, with the rightmost bay carried forward. The walls are detailed as the facade, with stepped quoins at each corner. Each bay on both floors has a single 1/1 sliding sash window with horns and a granite cill. Those at ground floor level have voussoirs delineated in render channels, while those at first floor have no voussoirs. The window to the right at first floor has horizontal bars to the bottom sash. The wall continues to the right as the left cheek of a rear left return.

The left elevation mirrors the right elevation. The wall continues at ground floor level as the right cheek of a rear right return.

The rear elevation is abutted on its left and right sides by lower two-storey returns, each with a pitched natural slate roof which abuts the rear wall of the main block. The remainder of the rear wall is painted lined render. A central panel of wall is raised forward, with the main roof cat-sliding over it. To this central panel, between ground and first floors, is a semicircular-headed stained and leaded glass half-landing window. To the left and right, filling the wall between the raised panel and the rear returns, are single modern 1/1 top-hung timber windows set in older openings. The rear returns have pitched natural slate roofs and painted rendered walls, both featuring modern top-hung timber windows fronting onto the rear yard.

The setting comprises lawned gardens with an orchard to the rear right. A broad driveway with a modern garage is positioned to the front right. The house is raised well above the level of Windsor Hill and is approached by a double flight of steps from a car parking area. The original garden was considerably larger; land to the left now accommodates a more recent house.