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

Coolbawn is the right-hand property in a terrace of three late 19th-century houses, positioned at the junction of Queen Street and Seaview in Warrenpoint, facing the sea on the north-west side of the street. Its main entrance faces Queen Street. Although now a single unit with the adjacent property (number 7 Seaview), the two buildings were originally separate and are documented individually.

The building is three storeys high with a pitched natural slate roof, hipped at the north end, where a large rendered chimney rises. A similar chimney stands to the rear. Moulded overhanging eaves carry metal ogee gutters.

The south-east-facing front wall to Seaview is two bays wide. It is wet-dashed and painted, with a smooth chamfered basecourse and stepped stucco quoins at either end. Continuous moulded cill courses mark the upper floors. The left (narrower) bay contains a single 1/1 sliding sash window to 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 the main roof's eaves. A gable above has decorative fretted bargeboards and a finial that ties into the main roof. The bay window walls are painted with line render, and each face has 1/1 sliding sash windows with horns (again diminished at second-floor level). The left gable forms the party wall with number 7 Seaview.

The north-east-facing gable fronts Queen Street and is detailed as the principal façade, three bays wide with the right bay set slightly back. The central bay contains the main entrance: a four-panelled door with raised and fielded bolection moulding, topped by a semicircular-headed fanlight flanked by semicircular-headed sidelights. The doorcase is framed by panelled stucco pilasters with foliated consoles beneath a moulded cornice that rises as an open-bed pediment over the fanlight. The pediment's apex ties into the first-floor cill course, and the cornice sweeps back to meet it. A small brass plaque sits to the left of the doorcase.

The left bay at ground floor has a single 1/1 sash window with moulded architrave and keyblock; similar windows appear on each upper floor of the left and middle bays (diminished at second-floor level). The first-floor window directly above the entrance is enhanced with flanking pilasters and consoles carrying a pediment. The right bay, set back from the others, has pairs of 1/1 sliding sash windows with moulded architraves and raised keystones at ground and first floors; the second floor has a single wider central window of the same type.

The rear north-west elevation is gabled to the left and abutted by a cat-slide return to the right. The gable is smooth-rendered and painted, with a 1/1 sliding sash window positioned roughly centrally between first and second floors. The cat-slide return features a pitched natural slate roof hipped at its gable end, with advanced eaves supporting half-round rainwater goods. Its walls are dashed and painted, set back slightly from the main block's face. The return's north-east elevation contains (at ground floor, 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 (left to right) and two modern timber casements, with the right-end window smaller. The return's end gable is smooth-rendered and painted; its ground floor holds two modern fire-escape doors, with a 1/1 sliding sash window to the left of the first floor. A flat-roofed extension abuts the right cheek of the return and is of no architectural interest. The inner yard walls are modern with no features of note; all windows here are modern top-hung casements with concrete cills.

The front garden and right side are enclosed by a low rendered dwarf wall and hedge.