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

9 St. Colman's Park, Newry

This is the second building from the top in a terrace of seven identical properties that slopes down St. Colman's Park. The building is three storeys high with a basement and is two bays wide. It is constructed with squared rubble granite walls brought to courses and a pitched natural slate roof. The building steps down slightly from number 7 and sits at the same height as number 11.

Front Elevation

The street façade features a four-panel painted timber door on the right side, which is a modern replacement. The door has a small rectangular stained glass transom light above it. The jambs and head are cement rendered over brick with a moulded architrave, and scrolled consoles at the top of the jambs support a projecting entablature. A boot scraper is positioned just to the right of the door.

To the left of the door is an 8/8 sliding sash window with a 3/3 basement window underneath, which has a metal security grille. The basement walls have been rendered. At first floor level are two 6/6 sliding sash windows aligned with the ground floor openings. At second floor level are three smaller 3/3 sash windows. All windows have granite cills, and cement-rendered heads and stepped brick jambs. Three-piece keystoned lintels sit above the ground and first floor window heads.

The front of the basement passage is protected by wrought iron railings mounted on a chamfered granite plinth with cast-iron urn-topped posts. These railings return along the exposed side of the entrance. Similar railings front the other houses in the terrace and also the corner block fronting John Mitchel Place. A rendered chimney sits on the left party wall. Half-round metal gutters share a downpipe with number 7 on the right.

Rear and Side Elevations

Both gables are abutted by similar houses. At the rear, the basement and ground floor walls are cement rendered, while the upper floors remain unrendered. Half-round metal rainwater goods are fitted throughout. A single storey extension abuts at ground floor left.

On the right side, an outside passage runs across the basement and is lit by a 6/6 sliding sash window. At ground and first floor right, there is a 6/6 sliding sash window, and at top floor a 3/3 sash. On the left, there is a 3/3 sash on the half landing between ground and first floor and a 6/6 sash on the half landing between first and second floors. All window openings are trimmed with unrendered and stepped brick. Some window openings have three-piece keystoned lintels above their brick heads, similar to the street elevation.

Rear Extension and Outbuilding

The modern extension connects the main block with an outbuilding at the back of the yard. It has a monopitch natural slate roof with skylights, cement rendered walls, and windows and a door opening to the yard.

The outbuilding is two storeys high and forms part of a continuous block running the length of the terrace. It has a gabled roof with natural slates to the outside north-facing slope and asbestos slates to the yard pitch. Plastic rainwater goods are fitted. The walls are unrendered rubble granite brought to courses.

On the left of the north elevation is a brick-trimmed semi-elliptical arch, now infilled with a modern metal-clad door inserted over it with a metal security door above. Directly above at first floor is a loading door opening, now infilled with brick and with a modern window inserted with a metal security grille over. On the right of each floor is a narrow ventilation slit, now infilled.

Both gables of the outbuilding are abutted by almost identical outhouses belonging to the adjoining premises. The yard elevation is abutted on the right by the one-storey link block. The wall above this is cement rendered; the remainder of this elevation is unrendered. On the left are modern top-hung plastic windows at ground and first floor levels, both with metal security grilles.