17 Kilmorey Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2DF

This is one of a small terrace of three, three-storey, two-bay houses located on Kilmorey Street, Newry. The house, situated at the right-hand end of the terrace, dates from between 1880 and 1899.

The building has a natural slate gabled roof with a cement-rendered chimney on the left side. It features half-round metal rainwater goods with a downpipe on the street elevation, shared with the adjacent property at number 19. The facade is of smooth, rendered walls above a raised base course, with projecting eaves and raised, vee-jointed stucco quoins on the upper floors. A granite step leads to the main entrance, which is a painted four-panel, raised and fielded timber door with modern brass furniture, surmounted by a rectangular transom light. The door opening has raised rendered jambs with strap consoles supporting a projecting entablature. To the left of the entrance is a two-over-two sliding sash window. Two identical windows are present on the first and second floors, aligned with the ground floor window but offset to the left. All windows have exposed boxes, moulded architraves, and granite cills. The ground floor window is wider than the others, and the top floor windows are slightly reduced in height. The right gable abuts a lower building, with a section of the wall being cement rendered. The left gable abuts an identical house. The rear wall is cement rendered with a projecting eaves course. Plastic rainwater goods are present on this side. A flat-roofed extension abuts the ground floor on the left side, incorporating a modern cement window in the back gable and a door in the right section, leading to a yard. Above the extension is a one-over-one, top-hung, plastic window to the landing. A casement window is located on the ground floor of the back room, with one-over-one, top-hung windows on each upper floor room. A narrow, one-over-one, plastic window, possibly a modern insert, is situated between the first-floor landing and first-floor windows.

The house first appears in the 1881 valuation records as vacant, suggesting it was newly built. It was occupied the following year. Valuation records from 1903 suggest alterations occurred around the same time as numbers 19 and 21 were constructed. The building possesses group value, being one of three virtually identical houses forming a cohesive terrace.