8 Trevor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DN

8 Trevor Hill, Newry, is a substantial early 19th-century classical revival town house forming the right-hand property of a pair of three-storey buildings with basement. The pair, positioned on the east side of Trevor Hill, creates a pleasing architectural composition around a shared central coach arch and forms part of an important architectural grouping on the street. Most original features survive.

The building is two bays wide. The pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and catslides over the rear return. Semicircular metal rainwater goods and downpipe fall to the right of the front facade, while rear rainwater goods are plastic with a metal downpipe to the centre of the rear elevation.

The front facade has painted lined render with a raised eaves course. Two granite steps rise from street level to the main entrance at the centre of the facade. The entrance door is six-panelled timber with decorative raised and fielded panels and beaded muntin, fitted with brass furniture. It is set within a pair of slender timber Doric columns supporting a moulded timber entablature, with a semi-elliptical metal fanlight above. All are contained within a semi-elliptical headed opening with painted ashlar granite jambs and head, raised imposts and keystone. The left jamb is shared with the coach arch.

To the immediate right of the door hangs a modern sign and two brass plaques. To the left of the door is a large pair of glazed and panelled timber doors with raised, fielded and stop-end chamfered panels, set within a painted ashlar semi-elliptical coach arch with similar detailing to the front door.

To the right of the front door is a single 2/1 exposed box sliding sash window, the bottom pane now infilled with a fascia. The basement level, aligned below this window, has a single 2/2 sliding sash window with timber and mesh grill. The first and second floors each have three equally spaced 2/2 exposed box sliding sash windows, diminished in height at second-floor level. First-floor windows have wrought metal balconettes, advertising lettering on their top panes, and modern spotlights fixed below their cills. All facade windows have painted granite cills.

The rear elevation is two bays wide with unpainted lime render. The right bay contains a stairwell return with windows at half-landing level and second floor. The left bay has one 2/2 exposed box sliding sash window per floor, diminished at second-floor level. The rear door, within the stairwell return, is four-panelled timber with glazed top panels and glazed and panelled sidelights, set in a plain reveal. A 1/2 casement window sits at the half-landing between ground and first floor, with a modern 2/2 casement window above at the half-landing between first and second floors, set within a large infilled opening.

Plain metal spiked original railings, resting on a granite base wall, enclose the front steps and basement. The area in front of the coach arch is paved with granite square-sets. Inset into the steps to the left of the front door is a wrought iron boot scraper.

The building is shown on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map and is described in an 1863 valuation as three storeys high, confirming its current form. Trevor Hill was laid out in the late 18th century and developed in the first years of the 19th century. The building now functions as an office and is located within a conservation area.