7 Newry Street, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4DN

7 Newry Street is a two-storey townhouse with attic storey, built in the early 19th century (1800–1819) and situated on the south side of Newry Street in Kilkeel. The internal detailing indicates a high specification worthy of protection.

The building comprises three bays: a narrow left bay, a central bay three times its width, and a right bay occupied by a coachway that appears to be a later addition. The pitched concrete pantiled roof is finished with two cement rendered chimneys positioned on each party wall of the central bay. The right gable is raised and coped. Raised render corbelled eaves support half-round cast iron rainwater goods.

The front elevation is lined rendered with V-channelled render quoins to the left side and on the party wall between the central and right bays. The ground floor left bay contains a six-panelled painted timber reproduction door with rectangular transom, serving the stairwell to the upper floor. The ground floor of the central bay is occupied by an early 20th-century shop front with a central pair of three-panelled, flush-moulded doors and transom inset with a neon panel. To either side are pairs of applied timber pilasters with chamfered plinths, applied mouldings and decorative corbels, beyond which are large shop windows permanently shuttered with timber doors decorated with applied timber lightning bolts. A canted fascia with leaded roof, held in place by the corbels of end pilasters, is painted with the lettering 'AMUSEMENTS'. The coachway to the right has a segmental head and large metal and mesh gate.

At first floor, four equally spaced 6/6 sliding sashes with no horns span the left and central bays, each with a painted granite cill. The window over the coachway at first floor right is similar but has a timber cill set higher to accommodate the coachway below. The coachway features dressed granite wheel tracks and snecked granite rubble walls painted.

The left and right gables form party walls with adjacent properties. The rear elevation is abutted to the right by a two-storey return and to the centre by a single-storey extension. The remaining walls are smooth unpainted cement render with corbelled eaves. The coachway features a metal lintel and a single boarded-up sash window. Two 6/6 sash windows to the first floor centre have lower cills than that to the left. The two-storey return has a pitched corrugated iron roof with two 1/1 sash windows to its first floor left cheek. The single-storey extension has a modern shallow corrugated metal pitched roof and cement rendered walls; its left cheek contains a modern escape door with window. An outhouse abuts the extension's gable. A two-storey carriage house to the rear features a pitched corrugated tin roof, plastic rainwater goods and whitewashed rubble stone walls.

The property was converted to commercial use as a shop with living accommodation over and became a public house in 1888.