Crown Hotel, The Square, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3LY

The Crown Hotel was a two-storey inn located on The Square in Warrenpoint, established around 1795, though some evidence suggests construction may have begun as early as 1770. The building has since been demolished following a terrorist firebomb attack on 8 February 1982, and was subsequently delisted.

The building comprised three bays fronting The Square. The left bay appeared to be a later addition and was two windows wide; the central bay was three openings wide; the right bay was gabled at the corner of Mary Street and was two windows wide. The structure had rendered and painted walls with a pitched natural slate roof, large chimneys between the left and central bays and on the front gable, topped with Victorian pots and moulded copings. The front elevation featured double-hung sash windows with 1/1 glazing, framed with square moulded architraves and keystones. The central bay contained three openings to each floor, with the lower right being a doorway with a pitched roof canopy porch. The left bay included a shop unit at ground floor with a similar architrave, and a pair of windows above at first floor. A dwarf wall with early 20th-century spiked railings enclosed a small paved area to the front.

The right elevation to Mary Street contained numerous sash windows without architraves and a doorway at the extreme right at ground floor level. The earliest lease dates to 1823 when the building was known as Morrison's Tenement, with its main front then facing Mary Street (then called George's Lane), which was the principal road to Rostrevor at that time. The Ordnance Survey Memoir of 1835 records it as a two-storey house with a billiard room, kept by Andrew Sim and rented from John Turner. The 1863 Valuation notes that "no business here except for about three months in summer".

The Crown remained in the Sim family until 1866, when Hugh Montgomery took over. The hotel engaged in keen competition with The Royal Hotel during the 1870s, with both establishments prominently advertising their salty baths in local newspapers. Upon Hugh Montgomery's death in 1895, the property was sold to Robert Sim, who upgraded the interior before reselling within two years. John Dale became proprietor in 1898. Following Dale's death, Patrick O'Neill acquired the property, and while serving as manager he became MP for the Irish Parliamentary Party at Stormont; Prime Minister Craigavon was among visitors to the hotel during this period.

The building was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on 8 February 1982 and has been demolished and replaced with a modern structure.