7 Trevor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DN

7 Trevor Hill is an elegant classical revival townhouse built in the early 19th century (between 1800 and 1819), forming the left-hand unit of a symmetrical pair with number 6. Together the two houses are arranged symmetrically about a central coach arch, and the building is also important as part of the wider Trevor Hill group. The property is three storeys tall with a basement, four windows wide across three bays on the principal facade, and faces east onto Trevor Hill. It retains most of its original external and internal features.

The building appears on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map and was recorded as a dwelling house in the 1838 valuation. By 1861 it was shown as the Belfast Bank, and when the Belfast Banking Company moved to new premises in Marcus Square in the 1890s, the property was taken over by the Trustees of the Quinn Charity — an organisation established under a bequest of £100,000 from a Mr Quinn in 1890. That charitable organisation still occupies the ground floor. The building is currently in office use.

The pitched roof is covered in natural slate and has three modern skylights to the front pitch. There is a modern cement render chimney to the left gable with a projecting coping. The gutter sits within the cornice of the facade and feeds a metal downpipe to the left. The main facade walls are in painted lined render, with a plain double sill course at first-floor level, a single sill course at second-floor level, and a plain double cornice course at eaves level. The left gable, which rises above number 8, is in plain unpainted cement render; the right gable is a party wall shared with number 7.

The main entrance is positioned immediately to the left of the coach arch at ground-floor level and is reached by five granite steps from the street. The opening is segmental-headed with granite jambs, voussoirs, and a raised keyblock. The timber door has six raised and fielded bolection-moulded panels — the top panel being the smallest — with black metal door furniture. The doorway is framed by a pair of painted granite Doric demi-columns supporting a moulded granite entablature. Above the entablature is a segmental fanlight with a modern plastic covering and a cast iron grill.

The coach arch is semi-elliptical headed with a projecting keyblock and shares its piers with the front doors of both properties. It is infilled with a fixed tongue-and-groove tympanum and a pair of timber doors below, the right-hand door having a wicket door inset within it.

The basement has two recessed but blocked-up openings. At ground-floor level there are two windows, positioned in line with the basement openings. These are one-over-one sliding sashes with horns, but the top sashes each contain three small stained-glass transoms. There are four windows to each of the upper floors, all centred over the openings below, and all one-over-one sliding sashes with horns; the second-floor windows are diminished in height. Ground-floor windows have bracketed sills with moulded render architraves, and modern security grills over them. First-floor windows rest on the continuous sill course and have similar architraves, with the addition of a frieze and a projecting cornice above. Second-floor windows also rest on a continuous sill course and have moulded architraves matching those at ground-floor level. Three modern plaques are fixed to the wall to the left of the front door, with a security alarm box above.

The basement area and front steps are enclosed by the original plain spiked iron railings, with urn-topped moulded cast-iron posts at the foot of the steps and at the centre and ends of the frontage. The centre of the railing is supported off the facade by a sweeping square-section supporting rail. There is no street-level access to the basement.

To the rear, the walls are cement rendered. A canted stairwell return abuts the building to the left of centre, and to the ground-floor right there is a single-storey return. The coachway runs to the left of the rear elevation, and the party yard wall to number 6 is carried on a steel beam over a large opening from the coachway. At first-floor level there are 3/6 sliding sash windows to both left and right. At second-floor level, the left has a modern casement window set above a three-paned bottom sash, and the right has a 6/3 sliding sash. All these windows have granite sills.

The stairwell return has a hipped natural slate roof with lead dressings and a downpipe to the right. Between ground and first-floor level it has a 6/6 sliding sash window with a semicircular fanlight attached to the top sash and bars over; a similar window appears at landing level above, with grills over. The single-storey return has a mono-pitched link block connecting to a pyramidal artificial slate roof over the main section, with a central rooflight; the walls are cement rendered. To the right elevation there is one modern one-over-one window and two semicircular-headed sliding sash windows. The rear elevation has one semicircular-headed sliding sash window, and a small further return to the right of the rear elevation contains a small window and a metal escape door.