7 Downshire Place, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DZ

This is the second building from the right in a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey houses with semi-basement and attic storeys, arranged in three bays on the east side of Downshire Road. The front elevation is four openings wide. The pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with cast iron skylights to the rear pitch. Cement rendered chimneys with projecting caps sit at each gable, shared with adjacent properties. Rainwater goods are semicircular plastic. The facade wall is painted and lined rendered with a projecting eaves course, also rendered.

The main entrance is approached via two granite steps leading to a granite paved platform, set in the third opening from the left on the ground floor. Original palmette-headed cast iron railings flank either side of the platform. To the right of the doorway, inset into the granite paving, is an iron bootscraper. The entrance door is painted timber with a beaded muntin, four bolection-moulded panels, and brass furniture, set within a reeded timber frame. The doorway is flanked by two three-quarter attached granite Tuscan columns supporting a moulded granite entablature (with a modern light attached to the underside) and a leaded Greek Revival transom light overhead. The opening has one-piece moulded granite jambs with scrolled consoles at the top supporting a moulded granite cornice. A modern intercom box is positioned to the left of the left jamb.

To the left of the entrance are two windows and to the right a single window, all 6/6 top-hung plastic windows with painted granite cills. All windows throughout the building have painted granite cills. At basement level to the left are two 3/3 sliding sashes without horns, protected by metal security grilles. The window in the right bay has been rendered over with its cill removed. Directly under the entrance platform is a porch accessed by concrete steps from the foot of the main entrance steps, which divides the basement passage into two sections. The door on the right side of the porch has been infilled.

The first floor has four equally spaced windows identical to the ground floor windows but diminished in height. The left and right gables form party walls with the adjacent properties (nos 5 and 9).

The rear elevation is at a different level due to the sloping topography of the site, with the basement at ground level to the rear. The rear wall is painted and wet-dashed with a projecting eaves course. To the right of centre at basement level is a pair of modern timber doors with a boxed roller shutter above. A large open lean-to shelter with a profiled plastic roof abuts the whole of the right half of the basement. At ground floor level, the left and right bays have single 3/3 plastic windows. Between ground and first floor in the centre bay is a tall 6/6 plastic window. At first floor left and right are single 6/6 windows (a sliding sash and a top-hung respectively). To the right of the left window is a small timber six-pane casement window serving a small toilet. All rear windows have metal security grilles except the ground floor left window.

The rear garden is enclosed to the sides by granite rubble walls and to the rear by a pair of large sheet metal doors accessing a lane leading to Church Avenue.

The front garden is enclosed by a chamfered granite base wall with the remains of wrought iron railings. A cement path leads from the street to the front door, with small lawns and mature shrubs to either side.