63 Canal Street, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6JF

Right-hand one of a pair of three-storey (+ attic)/ three-bay houses fronting the east side of Canal Street. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimney to south gable. Half round metal gutters to front and back. Wall to street facade of strap-pointed squared rubble granite brought to courses, with projecting finely dressed eaves course. The window openings are trimmed with brick (stepped to the jambs) and have granite cills; their reveals are cement rendered. At ground floor left is an elliptical headed coach arch; it has vee-jointed ashlar jambs and voussoirs (with keystone and imposts). It contains a pair of modern stained timber doors (one with a wicket gate). To its immediate right, and sharing its jamb, is the entrance to the house. This comprises a similarly arched and dressed opening. It contains a modern stained timber door (with timber panel to right), flanked by a pair of granite Tuscan columns (on square plinths) which support a moulded granite entablature over which is a stained glass fanlight. To the right of this door is a window opening containing a pair of 1/1 sliding sash windows with broad central mullion (based on the adjoining house it would originally have had a single 8/8 sash). At first and second floor are three 6/6 sliding sash windows in line with the ground floor openings; the upper set is diminished in height. The left gable is the party wall with the adjoining house of this pair. The right gable forms an obtuse angle with the façade. It is abutted by a lower building and its exposed section is blank and smooth cement rendered. The rear elevation has a pebble dashed wall. Its eaves have been raised to almost the height of the ridge line to accommodate an additional floor. The extreme left side of this wall is abutted by a modern three-storey flat roofed return. At ground floor centre is a modern partially-glazed door. To its right is the arched passage through to the street. To its left is a 6/6 sliding sash window. At centre, directly above the door, is a spoke-headed 3/6 sliding sash to ground-first and another to first-second floor half landings. The right bay has a modern door and casement window at first and at second floor; the door leads onto a balcony and to a metal fire escape from the top of the building. The left bay has a 6/6 sash window to each floor. The half landing to the new top floor is lit by a modern two-paned casement window. There is a door and casement window at right, and a casement at left. Only the spoke-headed half-landing lights and 6/6 sashes retain their granite cills; the rest are of concrete.