90 Hill Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DG

This is a three-storey building with an attic, set within a terrace on the west side of Hill Street in Newry. The building dates from approximately 1820 to 1839 and is located within the Carneyhough townland.

The façade is distinguished by decorative rendering. The roof is pitched, covered in natural slate, and features cement-rendered chimneys to each gable, alongside metal rainwater goods. A modern timber surround, incorporating pilasters, consoles, and a fascia, frames the ground-floor shopfront and a separate door accessing upper-floor offices. A central recess provides separate entrances to two shop units. The façade’s painted render extends to the first-floor cill course, while the walls above are painted brick with applied render detailing. V-channelled quoins rise along the sides of the façade, and a continuous guilloche cill course runs below the projecting eaves cornice. Tall, modern windows with two fixed panes and small opening transoms are at first floor, each framed by a decorative moulded architrave with swept, foliated ends. Consoled pediments top each first-floor window, with the central window featuring a segmental pediment. The second floor has three openings aligned with those below but of reduced height, each containing a 2/2 top-hung timber window, also with a moulded architrave and raised ears. The rear elevation is rendered. A flat-roofed, single-storey extension, not of particular interest, abuts the ground floor.

Several windows are notable: a 6/6 sliding-sash landing window is present between the ground and first floors on the right bay; a sheet metal escape door leading to the rear roof is at first floor in the central bay; a metal casement window is at ground floor on the left; and a 6/6 sliding-sash landing window is between the first and second floors in the central bay. The second floor features a 6/1 sliding-sash window (formerly 6/6) on the right and a 6/6 sliding sash combined with a smaller 2/2 sliding sash on the left. The right gable is abutted by an adjoining building, and the left gable is abutted by a lower building, with a rendered and blank exposed section.

The building appeared on an Ordnance Survey map of 1835 and was valued at £42 in 1838. It was described as 3 ½ storeys high in 1863. It served as a shop and is currently in use as one again. The building is privately owned and located within a conservation area.