St Leonard's, Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3RT

St Leonard's is the left-hand villa of a pair of matching mid-to-late 19th-century semi-detached villas, positioned to face the sea in mature grounds on the north side of Rostrevor Road. Each villa is two storeys high and two bays wide, though the principal facades face south while the entrances are positioned on the side elevations.

The roof is pitched in an L-plan form, finished in natural slate with moulded advanced eaves and bracketed ogee cast-iron gutters. The gutters to the right bay of the facade carry cast-iron crestings. Chimneys are rendered stucco with chamfered bases, moulded caps and yellow octagonal terracotta pots. The front south pitch is gabled to the left bay with plain timber bargeboard and a diminutive timber finial, and includes modern roof vents and a modern skylight to its right bay. A four-pot rendered chimney stands between the two houses, with a two-pot chimney positioned between the two bays.

The walls are smooth rendered and painted, with a moulded basecourse and moulded platband between floors. Two thinner, plainer platbands run at quarter and three-quarter height up each window. All windows have run-moulded stucco architraves with plain decorative key-blocks. Ground floor windows are 1/1 sashes except where otherwise stated; first-floor windows are 2/2 sashes with segmental heads.

The south elevation is two bays wide. The left bay advances slightly and contains a single-storey canted bay window with moulded and fretted parapet over a blocking course concealing its flat roof, with a window to front and narrower ones to each side. A single first-floor window above has a stucco roundel in the gable with key-blocks at the cardinal points. The right bay has a rectangular single-storey bay with two front windows and narrow blank sides, topped by a swept leaded roof with decorative gutter crestings. A single first-floor window sits above.

The west elevation is three bays wide and contains the main entrance. A single-storey gabled porch abuts the central bay, detailed as a principal feature with pitched natural slate roof and decorative fretted timber bargeboard on paired timber brackets. The porch front has a single granite step up to a door with two round-headed vertical panels separated by a beaded muntin, a cat-flap at the left side, and a plain semicircular-headed fanlight above with moulded architrave and fluted arris. The porch's right cheek has a 2/2 sash window; the left cheek is blank. Each remaining bay on this elevation has a single window to each floor, all containing 2/2 sashes except the ground-floor right, which has a partly glazed modern timber door with plain sidelight to right and a transom over.

The north gable of the main house is abutted to the right by a lower two-storey return, set back slightly from the west elevation. This return has pitched natural slate roof aligned north-south with walls and eaves matching the main block, but without a stringcourse between floors—only a single platband to each floor. Four openings serve each floor: two modern doors at ground-floor right with thin rendered architraves, two ground-floor windows as wide 6/6 uPVC casements, three first-floor windows as 6/6 sashes, and one first-floor fixed 3x4 timber window inset into a sash box. Several electricity meter boxes abut this elevation. The remainder of the north elevation was not inspected and fronts an internal yard.

A modern two-storey apartment block, built on the site of the former stable block, abuts the north gable of the return, aligned west-east and detailed to match the main block but with no features of interest. Its east gable abuts the stable block of Sennan House.

The front garden terraces in three stages: a short lawn at the top, a parking area in the middle, and an enclosure at the third level where fuel tanks are buried. The orchard to the rear of both houses has been cleared and densely developed with red brick modern housing accessed up the front driveway. At the end of the garden by the road, a modern house has been built to mimic a gate lodge.