Coolbawn, junction of Queen Street and Seaview, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NH

Coolbawn is the right-hand property of a terrace of three three-storey late 19th-century houses at the junction of Queen Street and Seaview in Warrenpoint. Built in 1882 (first cited in the Valuation revision book as no.11 Queen Street, later becoming no.27 The Promenade in 1895), it has been internally adapted as a nursing home and retains little original fabric. Despite these alterations, its external character contributes significantly to both the townscape value and the visual uniformity of this sea-facing terrace.

The building is positioned at the corner with its main entrance to Queen Street. It shares a single unit with the adjacent property (HB16/12/021B), though originally these were separate buildings and are described separately.

The roof is pitched natural slate, hipped at the north end, with a large rendered chimney on this end and a similar one to the rear. Moulded overhanging eaves carry metal ogee gutters.

The front elevation facing Seaview is two bays wide. It is wet dashed and painted with a smooth chamfered basecourse and stepped stucco quoins to either end. Continuous moulded cill courses run across the upper floors. The left bay is narrower than the right and contains a single 1/1 sliding sash window on each floor, all with painted cills and moulded architraves with decorative keyblocks; the second-floor window is slightly diminished in height. The right bay features a canted bay window rising the full height, with a canted natural slate roof sharing common eaves with the main roof and topped by a gable with decorative fretted bargeboard and finial. The bay windows are painted line render, with each face containing 1/1 sliding sash windows with horns; again, the second-floor windows are slightly diminished.

The right gable fronting Queen Street is detailed as the main facade and is three bays wide, with the right one set back slightly. The central bay contains the principal entrance, which has a four-panel raised and fielded bolection-moulded door surmounted by a semicircular-headed fanlight, flanked by semicircular-headed sidelights. The door and sidelights are framed by panelled stucco pilasters with foliated consoles beneath a moulded cornice that rises as an open-bed pediment over the fanlight; the pediment apex ties into the first-floor cill course, with the cornice sweeping back into this cill. A small brass plaque adorns the wall to the left of the doorcase. The left bay at ground floor contains a single 1/1 sash window with moulded architrave and keyblock; similar windows occupy each upper floor on the left and middle bays, with second-floor examples slightly diminished in height. The first-floor window directly above the main entrance has additional flanking pilasters and consoles supporting a pediment. The setback right bay has a pair of 1/1 sliding sash windows with moulded architraves and raised keystones at ground and first floors; the second floor has a single, wider similar window.

The rear northwest elevation is gabled to the left and abutted by a catslide return to the right. The gable is smooth rendered and painted, with a 1/1 sliding sash window positioned roughly centrally between the first and second floors. The catslide return on the right continues to abut the right cheek of the rear gable, with a pitched natural slate roof hipped to its gable end and advanced eaves supporting half-round rainwater goods. Its walls are dashed and painted, with the northeast elevation set back slightly from the main block. The ground floor of the return contains (left to right) two top-hung timber casement windows, a modern timber door with plainly glazed transom, a 2/2 sliding sash window, and a pair of modern timber casements. The first floor has three 2/2 sliding sash windows and two modern timber casements (the rightmost smaller). The gable end of the return has two modern fire-escape doors at ground floor, with a 1/1 sliding sash window to its left at first floor. A flat-roofed extension of no architectural interest abuts the right cheek of the return. The walls facing the inner yard are modern with no features of interest, featuring all modern top-hung casements with concrete cills.

A low rendered dwarf wall and hedge enclose the front and right garden.