51-61 Dublin Road, Newry, Co Down, BT35 8DD

This is an Edwardian terrace of six two-and-a-half storey, two-bay houses built between 1900 and 1919. They are primarily of interest for their contribution to the streetscape when viewed as a group. The buildings were constructed stepping down a hill towards the town and are identical in appearance to numbers 69-79 Dublin Road. They have pitched natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles and cast iron rainwater goods with cyma recta moulding resting on bracketed eaves. Each property has a red brick chimney with corbel coping to the left gable. The façade walls are rendered and lined with cement and feature three continuous moulded string courses, above the ground floor windows and doors, at the level of the first floor window sills, and above the first floor windows. All window and door openings have segmentally headed tops with chamfered reveals. The original windows were 1/1 sliding sash with horns. An entrance is located to the right of each house, leading to a panelled door with beaded muntins and a transom light divided vertically into three sections. A two-storey canted window bay is situated to the left of the door, with a single window above the door. These bays have flat, parapeted roofs with gabled dormers above, though some are now covered over. These dormers originally had a pair of semicircular-headed windows beneath a bracketed bargeboard with quatrefoil panel embellishment. To the right (in line with the door) is a hipped secondary dormer with terracotta hip finials and a single 2/2 window. Only numbers 53 and 55 retain their original facades. The buildings were known on Ordnance Survey maps as South End Terrace and were first documented in the 1904 Valuation Revision book, although two of the houses remained unoccupied until 1908. They were erected just outside the municipal boundary, likely to benefit from lower rates. The properties sit within front gardens enclosed by cement-rendered walls and wrought iron gates.