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

The Hibernian Club is a three-storey L-shaped corner building situated at the junction of The Mall and O'Hagan Street in Newry. The building is divided into two separate properties: one fronting The Mall (numbered 41a) and a second wrapping around the corner. It is constructed of red brick with a raised chamfered basecourse. Decorative horizontal courses of yellow brick, three bricks deep, run across the elevation at ground, first, and second floor levels. A projecting eaves course comprises a single yellow brick with curved red brick below. The corner rounds with the street and features a rectangular brick panel at second floor level with yellow brick detailing forming the date "1876".

The building is roofed with an L-shaped pitched roof with hipped ends. A modern red brick chimney rises from the front pitch of The Mall elevation, and a conical louvred extraction vent is positioned on the front pitch of the O'Hagan Street elevation.

The first property (left, on The Mall) has a modern polished granite shopfront at ground floor with a roller-shuttered, modern three-panelled door to its right providing access to the upper floors. The first floor contains three segmental-headed 1/1 sliding sash windows with quadrant brick reveals and granite cills. The second floor has two similar windows flanking a central opening that was formerly a loading door but is now a fixed three-pane light. A projecting timber beam above marks where a hoist formerly operated.

The second property fronts both The Mall and O'Hagan Street at the corner. On The Mall elevation, a recessed doorway centred at ground floor level contains a pair of modern painted four-panelled timber doors and is flanked by single windows. The doorcase features pilasters and an entablature. Above the doorway, embossed painted letters spell "Hibernian Club", with "AOH" (Ancient Order of Hibernians) lettering below within the recess. All openings have 1/1 top-hung modern stained timber windows with security grilles, with the exception of the ground floor openings which have segmental-headed curved brick reveals. The central windows at first and second floor level were formerly loading doors and have since been raised to align with adjacent cill levels. A flagpole is now fixed below the upper floor centre window, accessed by side opening casements in the lower half of those windows.

On the O'Hagan Street elevation, the ground floor contains five openings detailed as those on the principal facade. The fifth opening from the left is a doorway with louvres above, representing a modern insertion into what was a window. The central window is wider but shorter with a higher cill and is two-paned. All ground floor openings have fixed metal security grilles. The first floor has five modern top-hung windows, with two incorporating ventilation fans. The central window is broader and appears to have been a loading door with its cill level since raised by modern brick infill breaking the yellow brick course below. The four flanking openings also have raised cill levels, with four rows of modern bricks inserted below the new cills. Second floor windows are all equal 1/1 top-hung casements with unaltered cill levels, though the top panes of the middle three are blocked with ventilation fans to the centre.

The left elevation is abutted by an adjacent building on The Mall, with a rendered and blank gable at second floor. The right elevation is similarly abutted by a building on O'Hagan Street. The rear elevation was not inspected.