11 Sugar Island, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6HT

11 Sugar Island is a three-storey building with attic storey, comprising four bays and fronting the east side of Sugar Island in Newry. Dating to the late 18th century (1780–1799), it retains original high quality despite later refurbishment and changes of use.

The pitched natural slate roof features a scoped left verge and skylight to the front pitch, with a rendered chimney on the left gable. The rainwater gutter is contained behind a façade parapet. The wall is finished in painted line render.

The façade displays moulded string courses: one projects between the ground and first floors with shouldered ends and foliated label stops, and a second runs between the first and second floors. A plain raised eaves course is surmounted by a parapet comprising a series of small two-centre headed openings, each inset with a trefoil and finished with a moulded coping.

The ground floor contains six openings, all with shouldered heads and run-moulded jambs. The third and sixth openings from the left are double-leaf five-panelled painted timber doors, each with a two-pane transom light above; the former opens into the Link Works and the latter is now disused. The remaining openings contain timber-framed windows, each with two large panes and a smaller opening section above, set on steeply chamfered cills. Between each shouldered head is a recessed roundel.

The first floor has six equally spaced 1/1 sliding sash windows with horns, each with a thin projecting moulded cill. All share a continuous hood mould which drops halfway down each top sash. The second floor contains six similar sash windows, diminished in height, each with individual hood moulds.

The left and right gables form party walls with adjacent properties. The rear elevation is abutted by a large gabled random rubble building with profiled metal roof, much altered and of limited interest. The exposed section of rear wall is rubble stone with three 4/4 sash windows to each floor, all with granite cills, and a three-pane casement on the second bay from the right between the first and second floors.

The building was occupied under lease by Francis Carville in 1836, at which time it was described as a house with stores and yard. A shop use is first cited in the 1874 Valuation revision. The façade was restyled in the later 19th or earlier 20th century, and the interior has been substantially refurbished in recent times, reflecting its changing use. It retains architectural and historical interest of local significance and lies within a conservation area.