22 Kilmorey Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2DE

This is a two-bay house located on Kilmorey Street, Newry, constructed between 1840 and 1859. It stands to the left of a pair of three-storey Georgian town houses, symmetrically arranged around a shared coach arch and directly fronting the street, forming a well-proportioned classical composition with its neighbour. The scale and prominent corner location contribute to its significance within the streetscape.

The building has a gabled natural slate roof with coped verges, and a rendered chimney on the left side. It features ogee cast-iron gutters and a metal downpipe on the left side. The front façade has cement-rendered walls, lined and with stepped stucco quoins at the left end. A projecting granite cill course runs along the first-floor windows, with a rendered platband beneath. Two granite steps lead to a modern painted timber front door, which has four raised and fielded panels. The door surround is of vee-jointed ashlar granite, with a segmental head containing a wrought iron fanlight, the right jamb shared with the coach arch. To the left of the door is a single 8/8 sliding sash window. The first floor has two 6/6 sash windows aligned with the ground floor openings, while the second floor contains two 6/3 sashes, also aligned with those below. All windows have granite cills. The upper windows contribute to a regularly spaced composition across the entire block. A reproduction metal railing with urn-topped posts on a chamfered granite plinth is positioned at the front, returning alongside the entrance steps. The right gable is abutted by a matching building, while the left gable is abutted by a lower building. An exposed section of cement-rendered wall is visible. The rear walls are also smoothly rendered in cement. A modern, flat-roofed, one-storey link block abuts the right side. Internally, a 6/6 sliding sash window is positioned at the half landing between the ground and first floors, and another above, between the first and second floors. A 6/6 sash window illuminates each back room on the upper floors. A rainwater downpipe is located on the right side of the rear elevation.

A two-storey outhouse, contiguous with the adjacent premises, is located in the rear yard. It is constructed from random rubble granite, partially rendered, and has a pitched natural slate roof, with sections replaced by transparent plastic sheeting. Part of the outhouse wall has been extended to align with the roofline of the link block. This building was not shown on the 1835 map and was first recorded in the 1863 valuation records, suggesting a mid-19th century construction date, coinciding with the construction of number 24.

The listing includes the house and its railings. The building exhibits architectural merit due to its style, proportion, and ornamentation, although alterations detract somewhat from its overall appearance, and contributes to the group value of the surrounding buildings. The building possesses local historical interest.