24 Kilmorey Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2DE

24 Kilmorey Street, Newry

This is the right-hand building of a pair of three-storey Georgian town houses, built in the mid-19th century (first cited in the 1863 valuation, indicating construction around 1840–1859). The pair are symmetrically arranged about a shared coach arch and form a well-proportioned Classical composition that is significant to the street by virtue of its scale and prominent corner location.

The building is three bays wide with a gabled natural slate roof, coped verge, and rendered chimney at the right end. Ogee cast-iron rainwater goods and downpipe run at the left adjoining the neighbouring premises. The street façade walls are smooth rendered and lined with cement, with stepped stucco quoins at the right end. A projecting granite cill course runs to the first floor windows, with a rendered platband beneath.

On the ground floor, a coach arch (positioned in the middle of the block as a whole) contains a pair of timber doors with vee-jointed ashlar jambs and a semi-elliptical head. To its right, two granite steps lead up to a modern stained timber door with four raised and fielded panels. The door surround consists of vee-jointed ashlar granite with a segmental head containing a wrought iron fanlight; the left jamb is shared with the coach arch. Immediately right of the door is a single 8/8 sliding sash window. The first floor contains three 6/6 sashes positioned in line with the ground floor openings. The second floor has three 6/3 windows, similarly aligned. All windows are fitted with granite cills and form part of a regularly spaced composition across the entire block. At the front is a reproduction metal railing with urn-topped posts, set on a chamfered granite plinth; the railings return alongside the entrance steps.

The left gable is abutted by the mirror-image adjoining building. The right gable is cement rendered without openings and continues as a dashed yard wall to the gable of the rear yard outbuilding. Rear walls are also smooth rendered in cement, with a rainwater downpipe at the left.

A modern single-storey extension abuts the left side. It has an asbestos slated monopitch roof, cement rendered walls, and two top-hung stained timber windows. Above this extension, a 6/6 sash lights the first floor back room, and a 3/6 top-hung plastic window lights the top floor room. Identical windows appear on the right bay. In the middle bay of the main block, a 6/6 sliding sash window is positioned at the half landing between ground and first floors, with another above between the first and second floors. All windows have granite cills.

In the rear yard stands a two-storey outhouse contiguous with that of the adjoining premises. It has a pitched asbestos slate roof and random rubble granite walls. The yard-facing wall contains an arched opening to the ground floor and one window. A loading door is positioned above the coach arch with a window opening to its right. The street gable is wet dashed. The back wall, facing east, is pebble-dashed with two small openings to the ground floor, both fitted with metal security bar inserts.