Murrays Corner, 83 Chapel Road, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT34 2DP

Murrays Corner is an early 19th-century house with a former shop, prominently sited at the junction of Seavers Road and Chapel Road in Newry. The building is no longer of special architectural or historic interest due to extensive interior alterations to its plan, modern extensions, and replacement casement windows.

The main structure is a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay house aligned north-east to south-west, with a single-storey shop attached to the right gable. The pitched natural slate roof is finished with terracotta ridge tiles and verges, supported by an advanced eaves course carrying half-round metal rainwater goods. Whitewashed corbelled chimneys rise from each gable end.

The principal south-east elevation is whitewashed with a base course to the façade. The central doorcase features a pair of painted stone pilasters with moulded brackets supporting a narrow stone canopy, framing a timber-and-glazed door with upper glazed panel. Either side of the door are exposed box 2/2 sliding sash windows with horns and painted concrete cills. The first floor contains three similar but diminished sash windows aligned above. The left and right gables are blank. The right gable is abutted by a single-storey shop which projects beyond the main house line.

The rear elevation is almost entirely abutted at ground floor by a single-storey return with a flat felted roof, cement-rendered walls, and modern glazed timber door. The exposed right bay retains a window matching the façade type. Remaining windows are top-hung casements. A former shop, now used as a sitting room, occupies the left cheek of the return and abuts the right gable of the house. This structure has a pitched corrugated metal roof, two landscape timber-framed 1x1 fixed-pane windows to its main south-east face, a timber-and-glazed door to its south-west face, and modern glazed timber and casement doors to its rear.

Historical records show a building at this location on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map, listed in the 1835 Valuation book as belonging to Bernard Feran. It was described as a dwelling measuring 38 feet 6 inches by 18 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 6 inches and valued at £2 from the 1862 Valuation book onwards. The building was delisted from the heritage register on 26 August 2003.