3 Windsor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1ER

3 Windsor Hill, Newry

This is the centre dwelling in a terrace of five three-storey, two-bay houses built in the mid-nineteenth century. It is a simple but attractive house that retains most of its original features and forms part of an important and largely unaltered group situated at a major entry route to the town.

The building has a pitched roof with artificial slate covering and a cement-rendered chimney to the left gable. Modern skylights have been added to the front pitch and two to the rear. Semicircular metal rainwater goods with a downpipe run down the right of the façade. The front wall is painted lined render with a painted base course. Access is via a single granite step rising to the main entrance at the right, where a four-panelled painted timber door with bolection moulding and fielded panels is set beneath a margin-paned transom. To the left is a single 6/6 exposed-box sliding sash with horns and painted granite cill. Two similar windows are positioned on each upper floor, aligned with the ground floor openings. These windows are modern replacements on spring balances with double glazing and stick-on glazing bars.

The left gable forms the party wall with the adjacent property. The right gable is abutted by a lower gable, with the exposed area rendered but unpainted. The rear elevation has smooth render walls. A single-storey return abuts the right half of the rear; this is a modern rebuild of an originally larger return, fitted with a plastic window facing the yard. Abutting the left half is a two-storey return with a monopitch roof sloping to the rear. The first and second floors of the main block at right feature a 6/6 window matching the façade. At left, on the half landing, a similar window is set with its cill at the ridge level of the return. The two-storey return has an artificial slate roof with cement-rendered walls and is blank except for a ground floor door. The rear yard is enclosed by a random rubble wall on the sides.

In the yard stands a two-storey outhouse with a pitched natural slate roof and random rubble walls rendered on the yard side. To the alley, it has two tongued-and-grooved sheeted painted timber doors—one to the ground floor left and one to the first floor centre. Facing the yard, it has two modern sheeted and glazed doors with a central window. The first floor has a single central opening with vertical bars.

Historical Records

The house first appears on the 1858 Ordnance Survey map alongside the other four dwellings in the terrace; it does not appear on the 1834 map. The 1863 Valuation describes it in its present form and attributes ownership to Thomas King, who was probably responsible for constructing the entire terrace.