15, 17 & 19 Greencastle Street, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4BH

Group of three Moderne-style buildings on the south side of Greencastle Street, Kilkeel. The central building (No.17) is three storeys with a flat roof, while those flanking it (Nos.15 and 19) are two storeys with pitched roofs but share similar Moderne façade treatments.

No.15 is a two-storey shop with a pitched natural slate roof behind a parapet. The left gable is unpainted render with a single 1/1 sliding sash window to first floor and a cement-rendered, coped chimney. The front elevation is painted lined render with a modern glazed aluminium shop front to ground floor and plastic fascia above. The first floor has three equally spaced 1/1 sliding sash windows with a continuous moulded cill course forming a drip mould over the shop fascia. Above the windows is a projecting render platband. A similar platband at eaves level forms the base of a corrugated (asbestos?) frieze parapet, coped with concrete and featuring a raised central section also with concrete coping. The right gable forms the party wall with No.17. A three-storey rear return of no special interest abuts the rear wall.

No.17 is the centrepiece—a three-storey Moderne building with a flat roof concealed behind a façade parapet. The front elevation is painted lined render with advanced rendered piers on chamfered plinths at each end. At ground floor level, a vehicle access to the rear (now with a modern metal roller shutter) sits to the left, while a shop unit with a glazed timber door and window occupies the right. Originally the door was positioned on the left cheek beside the vehicle access with a large plate glass window to the façade. A modern plastic fascia spans the full length of the ground floor. Above it sits the original smooth rendered fascia with fluted friezes at each end pier, with a projecting platband forming a hood above. The first floor contains four window openings with a projecting continuous lintel and cill, each fitted with 2x5 paned metal casements with a narrow fluted (ventilator?) frieze above. Below the cill is a corrugated (asbestos?) frieze separated at the bottom by a rendered platband between the ground floor pier heads. The second floor has similar fenestration with 2x4 paned casements, again with frieze and platband below the continuous cill. A broad platband runs over the windows at eaves level, topped by a corrugated parapet with concrete coping and raised central section. Between the central windows at first floor projects a clock set in a rectangular metal casing with square white faces on each side displaying Art Deco numerals. The casing is reeded to each side and louvred to top and bottom, topped with an embattled Art Deco crown. A small plastic name sign has been applied below the clock face on both sides. The left gable is rendered and abutted by a lower building, with an attached rendered chimney. The right gable is abutted by the rendered chimney stack of No.19. The rear elevation includes a large two-storey return to the left bay. The right bay is smooth unpainted render with a roller-shuttered opening at ground floor. At first floor, the return projects over the passage below, leaving only a narrow portion of the main block's rear wall visible, containing a pair of two-pane metal casements. A metal-framed window as those on the façade serves the second floor. The return has undergone numerous alterations and additions and is of no special merit. Its end gable contains two date stones (possibly repositioned): '1867' in stone and '1945' in cement render. At the very back stands a long one-storey mass-concrete building with a Belfast truss roof.

No.19 is a two-storey shop at the right of the group with similar Moderne detailing. It has a pitched natural slate roof with a parapet gutter to the façade. Two chimneys—one cement-rendered, one brick—are tied into the gables of the flanking buildings. The front elevation is painted lined render with a modern shop at ground floor left and a roller shutter to a former vehicle entrance at right. A continuous modern plastic fascia spans all ground floor elements. The first floor contains two modern 1/1 top-hung windows separated by a roundel containing an applied spoked bicycle wheel. Around the top edge of the wheel are the words "Repairer to" with the letters "CTC" (Cyclists Touring Club) appearing in the wheel between three applied wings. A raised platband sits above the first floor windows, with a second similar band at eaves level topped by a corrugated parapet frieze and raised coping matching No.15. The left and right gables are abutted by adjoining buildings. The rear elevation is smooth rendered and abutted to the right bay by a return of no interest. In the corner between the left bay of the main block and the return is a modern brick annexe with a flat roof at eaves level. The return is abutted by another return, the exposed gable of which carries two date stones: '1920 / D. McAtee' and '1956'.