1 Bank Parade, Newry, Co Down, BT34 6HP

1 Bank Parade is a two-storey building in red brick and granite, positioned on the west side of Bank Parade beside Newry Arts Centre. The structure comprises a front block aligned parallel to the street, with a return to the rear and a lower return on the rear gable of that section.

The front building is crowned with a gabled natural slate roof featuring two deep bands of fish-scale slates across the front pitch. A red brick chimney with chamfered corners and a chamfered smoothly dressed cap sits on the left gable. The façade walls are of red brick with stepped yellow brick trimming to the quoins, doors, first floor window at left, and corbelled eaves course. A decorative band of red and yellow brick sandwiched between black bricks runs above ground floor window level. A finely dressed granite platband crosses the façade at first floor cill level.

A canted bay projects at the centre, topped with a polygonal natural slate roof. The ground floor door at left is deeply recessed, comprising a vertical vee-and-groove sheeted door in a shouldered wooden frame. Above it is a triangular transom light containing a moulded quatrefoil roundel. The door opening has stop-end chamfers to its stepped yellow brick edges and a granite keystone. The door opening at right appears to be a later addition, with slightly different coloured brick trimming and a shallower head profile; it contains a timber sheeted door with transom above. A first floor window above the left door is now infilled internally.

The bay incorporates windows on each of its three sides at both floor levels. The openings are of finely dressed granite, chamfered along the edges, shouldered at the top, with a small roundel cut into each shoulder spandrel. All windows are vertically-divided 2/2 timber sliding sashes. A timber fascia runs around the bay above the windows and continues above the right-hand door, inscribed with "Rural Development Partnership/ Leader/ South Down, South Armagh Local Action Group Ltd". The right gable is abutted by the new entrance to the Arts Centre. The left gable is plain, rendered with cement, with no openings except a small light at ground floor level now blocked.

The rear wall is cement rendered and featureless. At its centre it is abutted by a return with a gabled natural slate roof and brick chimney on the north pitch. This return's walls are cement rendered, with a single timber 2/2 sliding sash window at first floor level on the south-facing wall. The opposite wall is abutted by the Arts Centre. The rear gable has a modern metal window at ground floor level and is abutted by a lower return with a natural slate hip roof and brick chimney on the north-facing pitch. This lower return also has cement rendered walls. The south wall contains two ground floor windows and three at first floor, all 2/2 sliding sashes. The north wall features a modern window and door at ground floor and a modern opening with fire escape door and metal ladder at first floor. Its rear gable shows the trace of a now-demolished one-storey building.

A one-storey flat-roofed building with rendered walls, metal-framed windows and one door runs around the south wall of the main block and two returns, likely obscuring the original ground floor windows.