The Hibernian Club, 42 The Mall, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1AN

The Hibernian Club is a three-storey L-shaped corner building on The Mall and O'Hagan Street in Newry, constructed in 1876 as evidenced by a datestone on the wall. The building is divided into two separate properties.

The structure is built in red brick with a raised chamfered basecourse. Yellow brick courses three bricks deep run at ground, first, and second floor levels, and a course comprising a single yellow brick with curved red brick below forms a projecting eaves course. The L-shaped roof is pitched with hipped ends. A modern red brick chimney projects from the front pitch to The Mall, and a conical louvred extraction vent sits on the front pitch of the O'Hagan Street elevation. The curved corner is inset at second floor level with a rectangular brick panel displaying yellow brick detailing forming '1876'. A projecting timber beam for a former hoist is visible above what was once a loading door.

The first property fronts The Mall to the left (numbered 41a). A modern polished granite shopfront occupies the ground floor left, with a roller-shuttered modern three-panelled door to the right leading to upper floors. At first floor are three segmental-headed 1/1 sliding sash windows with quadrant brick reveals and granite cills. The upper floor has two similar windows to the sides; the central opening was once a loading door and is now a three-pane fixed light.

The second property occupies the corner. On The Mall, a recessed doorway centred at ground floor is flanked by pilasters and entablature, containing a pair of modern four-panelled painted timber doors. The frieze displays "Hibernian Club" in embossed, painted letters above the doorcase, with letters "AOH" (Ancient Order of Hibernians) below in the recess. Single 1/1 top-hung modern stained timber windows with security grills flank the door on either side, with three similar windows on each upper floor. The central windows on both upper floors were once loading doors, since raised in line with other cills. All windows are set within segmentally headed, curved brick reveals.

The O'Hagan Street elevation features five ground floor openings detailed as those on The Mall facade, all with fixed metal security grilles. The fifth opening from the left is a doorway with louvres over (a modern insertion). The central ground floor window is wider but shorter with a higher cill and is two-paned. At first floor are five modern top-hung windows, with ventilation fans in two. The central window is broader and was once a loading door; its cill level has been raised with modern brick infill breaking the yellow brick course below. The other four openings also have raised cill levels with four rows of modern bricks below. Second floor windows are all equal 1/1 top-hung casements with unaltered cill levels; the middle three windows have their top panes blocked up with ventilation fans to the centre. A flagpole is now fixed below the upper floor centre window of the main facade, accessed by side opening casements in the lower half of windows.

The left elevation is abutted by the building to its left on The Mall, with a rendered and blank second-floor gable. The right elevation is abutted by the building to its right on O'Hagan Street. The rear elevation was not inspected.

The building was constructed at the time when O'Hagan Bridge (HB16/28/081) was built to extend The Mall over an open millrace. A Catholic Working Men's club has occupied the building since the early 1900s. The interior was recently stripped out and refurbished, leaving no original features surviving. The building is located within a conservation area.