40 Canal Street, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6JF

This is a three-storey house with an attic, built between 1860 and 1879, located on the west side of Canal Street in Newry. It is part of a terrace and sits to the left of a matching property at number 42. The house has some group value, contributing to the character of the area, but does not possess exceptional architectural merit.

The house is two bays wide, with the left bay being significantly wider than the right. The roof is pitched and covered in natural slate, topped with a red brick chimney stack featuring five pots on the left gable. The south gable is slightly angled to the frontage, displaying corbelled, oversailing eaves and raised coping stones. Semicircular metal rainwater pipes with a plastic downpipe run along the left side.

The front (east) elevation is rendered and has a painted base course, with a recessed niche for a boot scraper to the left of the front door. The main entrance is a four-panelled timber door consisting of raised fielded and bolection moulded panels, a beaded muntin, and a two-paned transom window above. All windows are vertically divided, painted timber sash windows with horns and painted granite cills. The left bay includes two windows at ground floor level, each protected by wrought iron bars with ball finials enclosing most of the lower sash area. Three evenly spaced windows are present on each upper floor, mirroring the ground floor arrangement, although the second-floor windows are reduced in height. The north gable forms a shared party wall with the adjacent property at number 42. The south gable is cement-rendered, with no openings.

The rear elevation consists of unpainted, lined cement render, and is adjoined at ground floor level by single-storey extensions on both the left and right sides. All the rear windows are vertically divided, painted timber sash windows with horns and granite cills, with one window centrally placed on the ground floor. A glazed timber door leading to the left extension’s roof is positioned to the left on the first floor. A small landing window is positioned between the first and second floors to the left. A smaller window, also reduced in height, is located between the ground floor and the attic. The left extension has a flat felt roof and cement-rendered walls, while the right extension features an artificial slate mono-pitched roof with modern barge and eaves boards. This right extension has a modern timber and glass door and window on its left cheek, and a modern timber window to its rear gable.

The property appears in the 1871 Valuation Revision records, and the site was vacant prior to its construction. The house is located within a conservation area and is privately owned.