19a & c Monaghan Street, Newry, Co. Down, BT35 6BB

A two and a half storey, five bay terraced block on the north side of Monaghan Street in Newry, comprising two dormered dwellings (numbered 19c at left and 19a at right) arranged symmetrically about a central coach arch.

The building has a gabled natural slate roof with rendered chimneys to each gable and cyma recta rainwater goods resting on a bracketed brick eaves course. Between the brackets are panels of yellow tiles. Three equally spaced skylights light the rear pitch, with plain metal gutters throughout. The ground floor façade walls are cement rendered and painted over a projecting rendered base course, while the first floor walls are of red brick. A projecting granite string course between ground and first floors also forms the cills to the first floor windows. Two bands of yellow brick run across the façade—one halfway up the window jambs and another at window head level. A course of black brick runs over the first floor window heads and another under the eaves brackets.

The central feature is a coach arch in the middle of the ground floor façade, with ashlar granite jambs supporting a shallow semi-elliptical brick head. The opening contains a pair of large sheeted timber doors with a wicket gate. The coach arch jambs are shared with the doors to the houses on either side; both these doors are modern stained timber with glazed top panels and two fielded bottom panels. To the left of the door to no.19c is a 1/1 top hung casement window with painted granite cill; that to no.19a at right is boarded up. At first floor are five equally spaced 1/1 modern top hung casement timber windows (the middle one directly over the coach arch), with their arches punctuated by groups of black bricks. Five equally spaced dormers rise from the front pitch of the roof, each with a fixed single pane in a timber frame, plain bargeboards, and slate hung cheeks; a drop finial survives on the dormer over the coach arch. The left and right gables are abutted by adjacent buildings.

The rear of no.19c is of random granite rubble, lightly rendered in places with lime mortar and featuring a brick eaves course. A one-room return abuts the coach arch bay at the rear, with an asbestos slate roof and an end gable at the north finished with a rendered and painted brick parapet. A one-storey kitchen extension abuts the angle between this return and the rear of no.19c, with a natural slate roof, cement rendered walls, modern windows to the yard side, and a door into the house. To its right, on the ground floor of no.19c, is a 1/1 sliding sash window, with an identical window in line on the first floor. To the left of this latter window, above the kitchen extension, are smaller 1/1 sash windows to the ground-first and first-attic floor landings. The room above the coach arch is lit by a 6/6 sash window. All windows on the rear wall have brick jambs and heads with granite cills. No.19a appears to be a mirror image. Just beyond the rear of the extended passage way at the left is a small one-storey, one-room building with a gabled natural slate roof hipped at one end. The walls are of rendered and whitewashed brick, with the façade facing the passage to the rear of the premises. A plain timber door is positioned at the left of this wall, with two window openings (now sheeted over) to the right, sharing a chamfered granite cill, jambs, and head. Inside is a small fireplace abutting the rear wall of the coach arch extension.