175 South Promenade ('Widows' Row'), Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down, BT33 0HA

One of a terrace of 12 small, picturesque two-storey houses built in 1843 for the dependants of local fishermen who drowned in a disaster that year. The house is situated near the middle of 'Widows' Row' on the south-west side of South Promenade at the southern extremity of Newcastle.

The terrace was built following a fierce storm off the coast in January 1843 in which 46 Newcastle men perished, leaving behind 27 widows, 118 orphans and 21 dependants. An appeal, supported by a substantial donation from the trustees of the Annesley Estate, raised funds to build these 12 dwellings. Each house originally consisted of two rooms, one to each floor.

The front, north-east facing façade has a timber-sheeted stable door to the left on the ground floor. To the right is a multi-pane fixed light window in the vernacular Georgian style. The first floor features a similar multi-pane window set within a gabled half-dormer. The façade is finished in roughcast render and painted. A gabled roof with overhang is covered in natural slate with exposed rafter ends. A single rendered chimney stack, shared with the neighbouring property to the north, rises from the roof. The rainwater goods are a mixture of cast iron and PVC.

A modern two-storey flat-roofed extension has been added to the rear, rising level with the roof ridge. This extension substantially obscures the original rear wall. A low painted stone wall encloses a small garden to the front.

Although substantially altered to the rear, the terrace as a whole retains significant original character and detailing, including the gabled half-dormers, vernacular Georgian multi-paned windows and the boundary wall. The house is listed with the boundary wall to the front as part of the extent of listing.