5 Windsor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1ER

5 Windsor Hill is the left-hand end dwelling in a terrace of five three-storey, two-bay houses stepping up Windsor Hill in Newry. This simple but elegant townhouse retains most of its original features and forms part of an important and largely unaltered group at a major entry route to the town.

The building has a pitched natural slate roof with a cement rendered chimney to the left gable and a cast iron skylight to the rear pitch. Semicircular metal rainwater gutters drain into those of the adjoining property to the right, with a short downspout at the step. The façade wall is painted lined render with a painted base course.

The main entrance is set back slightly from the left edge, accessed by single granite steps rising to the right. The door is a modern four-panelled painted timber set within a pair of fluted Ionic painted granite columns which support a moulded entablature with a radial fanlight over. To the left of the entrance is a single 1/1 exposed box sliding sash with painted granite cill. There are two similar windows to each upper floor, positioned in line with the ground floor openings. The top floor openings diminish in height and have decorative painted render corbelled cills with panelled parapets and attached pinnacles to either side. The right gable forms the party wall with the adjacent property, with a short step down to number 4. The left gable is wet dashed and unpainted. To the left of the building is a pair of sheet metal doors leading to the rear courtyard.

A single storey extension abuts the ground floor to the left. The remaining rear wall is wet dashed cement render. To the ground floor right is a modern multi-glazed timber casement with concrete cill. To the first and second floors right are modern top hung casements with painted granite cills. Between the first and second floors at left is a similar window, with a small modern casement serving a toilet to the left of the second floor window. The extension has a mono-pitched artificial slate roof with cement rendered walls. Its left wall forms the yard boundary with the adjacent property, and its gable features a modern door with a timber casement window to its right cheek.

The rear yard is large and enclosed by a random rubble wall, with a large sheet metal door providing access to the street. An outhouse in the yard is two storeys tall with a pitched natural slate roof and random rubble walls. To the yard, it has an infilled door to the ground floor left of centre and an infilled window to the right of centre. At first floor are two square openings in line with those below. The gable has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to each floor (one to ground floor left and one to first floor centre), with a square modern timber window to the right at ground floor.

The house first appears on the 1858 Ordnance Survey map, along with the other four in the terrace, but is not shown on the 1834 map. It is described in its present form in the 1863 Valuation. As the largest house in the terrace, its owner and occupier at that time was Thomas King, who was probably responsible for the construction of the entire terrace.