2 Osborne Promenade, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NQ

Two-storey, single-bay terraced house facing south-west onto Osborne Promenade at Warrenpoint, dating from the early 19th century (shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map). Built circa 1820–1839, measuring 25 feet by 36 feet 6 inches by 25 feet high, the house is now recorded only, having been delisted on 8 February 2008.

The building is constructed with rendered and painted front elevation. The pitched roof, clad in artificial slate with unpainted rendered chimney to the left end of the ridge, contains two wall-head dormers with hipped roofs and modern casement windows on the front pitch, and a single dormer on the rear pitch. Ogee rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

The front elevation, which faces south-west, is the principal architectural feature. The right bay contains three granite steps leading to an early 20th-century Arts and Crafts front door with an eyebrow glazed top panel and three additional upper lights, all stained glass. The doorway is set within a finely dressed semi-elliptical headed granite doorcase with moulded arris, framed by finely dressed Ionic columns supporting a moulded entablature. Above is a leaded peacock tail fanlight. The ground floor left bay now contains a modern window in an enlarged opening with a fixed light and three transoms over. The three first-floor windows are fixed lights with pairs of top-hung transoms over, each with painted granite cills. Historically, the front elevation featured tripartite Georgian paned sash windows at ground floor and 6/6 sashes at first floor, as shown in a postcard of Osborne Terrace dated around 1920. A small forecourt area is enclosed by a cement-rendered dwarf wall with granite coping, and cast-iron posts remain set into the render at left and right of the doorcase—all that survives of the original railings.

The rear elevation is rendered and unpainted. It is abutted to the left by a two-storey return and to the right by a single-storey extension, both modern. The remaining rear wall at ground floor contains a large modern picture window with granite cill; at first floor centre is an original window opening containing a modern fixed window, and at first-floor right (over the extension) is a smaller window opening with concrete cill and modern casement window.

The two-storey return is narrow and short, with a pitched natural slate roof tying into the main roof. Its left cheek is blank, its end gable is abutted by an outbuilding, and its right cheek contains a modern door and small modern window. At first floor is a large modern window lighting the stairwell, and a small window appears at second-floor level.

The extension is entirely modern, constructed with a mono-pitched artificial slate roof and rendered walls. Its right wall abuts the yard wall; its end gable contains a modern window; and its left cheek (yard-facing) has a large modern window and modern door.

A slate-hung and painted outbuilding, slightly smaller than the return, is shared with the adjacent building. Its end gable is narrow and blank; its right wall (yard-facing) contains a tongue-and-groove sheeted door at ground floor.

The house was noted in the 1835 First Valuation as being occupied by Mrs Osborne, a family member also occupying the flanking houses at that time. Local tradition suggests the house and its neighbour were once a single dwelling. The present occupant has lived there since 1961. The building has undergone significant internal modernisation, with rooms subdivided and extensively altered. Inappropriate modern windows have replaced the original joinery, and the roofing has been substantially altered. The house is now considered to be of no special architectural or historic interest.