26 & 28 Charlotte Street, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3LF

The buildings at 26 and 28 Charlotte Street, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, were a pair of houses built between 1860 and 1879. They were demolished around 1989 and replaced by a new apartment building in the early 1990s.

The original pair of houses were first documented in the Valuation Revision book of 1868. They were designed as a symmetrical pair of three-story buildings with slated roofs and rendered walls. The walls featured horizontal lines to simulate masonry above a moulded cill course. All windows were double-hung sash windows, with segmental-headed windows on the second floor above the moulded cill. A square eaves cornice, supported by consoles with dentil ornament, ran along the top of the building. The entrances were flanked by a rectangular fanlight and an elliptical-arched vehicle entrance with a faceted keystone. The carriage entrance was accessed via a pair of diagonally sheeted doors with ornate strap hinges. Each property had a timber entrance door with elongated round-headed panels separated by beaded muntins, topped with plain transoms. The ground floor had band rustication and a chamfered base course with a common cill course. Moulded cill courses were present on the upper floors. No. 28 had two 1/1 sliding sash windows to the left of its door, with chamfered reveals. No. 26 featured a large tripartite casement window that appeared to be inserted into an enlarged opening created by removing two original sash windows and the masonry between them. Each property had three 1/1 sliding sash windows (with horns) on the first floor, and two segmental-headed 1/1 sash windows, smaller in height compared to the first floor, on the second floor. A fifth, similarly shaped window was centrally located above the carriage arch. A lower building abutted the left gable, while the right gable was blank and cement rendered. Terracotta tile skews were also visible, along with stucco corbels that supported an advanced eaves course and cast-iron gutters.