10 Trevor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DN

10 Trevor Hill, Newry

This is the right-hand house of a pair of three-storey stone-built houses with basement, in the classical revival style, facing the east side of Trevor Hill. The building is three bays wide.

The roof is pitched with natural slate and tile verge to the right gable. Three modern skylights light the front pitch, and a modern chimney serves the right gable. Half-round metal rainwater goods and downpipe are fitted to the right.

The façade walls are constructed of squared granite rubble laid in courses, with a projecting eaves course. The front door is approached by six granite steps rising just left of centre, with wrought iron boot scrapers at the top and foot. The modern six-panelled painted timber door is flanked by a pair of fluted Doric columns supporting a dentiled entablature, above which sits a plainly glazed fanlight. This entire composition is set within a segmental-headed opening with dressed granite encasement. The left jamb of this opening is shared with the coach arch.

The coach arch occupies the left bay and has an identical segmental-headed opening containing a pair of painted tongue-and-groove timber doors, each with a small timber panel (formerly a window). The right leaf includes a wicket gate. The tympanum is infilled with tongue-and-groove panels arranged radially. The coach way threshold is granite cobbles.

To the right of the front door is a 6/6 sliding sash window with granite cill, as are all other windows unless otherwise stated. A basement passage runs across the front. It contains a window with metal security bars directly below the ground floor window. Beneath the external steps, a tongue-and-groove sheeted fire door is set into the right cheek. All window openings feature stepped brick quoins, soldier course heads, painted and rendered reveals, and granite cills.

At first floor are three equally spaced windows; only the left window aligns with ground floor openings. At second floor are three 3/6 sliding sash windows, aligned with those below.

The right gable is abutted by a lower building; the exposed wall section is cement rendered with a small two-paned fixed window to the right side of the gable. The left gable is the party wall with the adjoining house.

The rear elevation is random rubble with brick dressings and a raised brick eaves course. A boarded-up segmental-headed landing window sits centrally between ground and first floors. At first floor left is a tripartite window comprising a 2/6 sliding sash flanked by two 2/2 sliding sashes. To first floor right is a boarded-up window opening. Centrally between first and second floors is a segmental-headed sliding sash stained glass landing window with the top sash having a segmental head. At second floor left, aligned with the opening below, is a tripartite window of two three-paned casements (fitted into sash boxes) flanked by two 2/1 sliding sashes. At second floor right, aligned with the opening below, is a 2/2 sliding sash window. All windows have granite cills and cemented reveals.

Original spiked plain-rail railings with posts on a chamfered granite base wall enclose the basement and steps. A further set of railings runs up the left side steps between the coach arch and front door.