5 Monaghan Street, Newry, Co Down, BT34 6BB

A two-storey, three-bay red brick building fronting the north side of Monaghan Street. The roof is flat with brick chimneys at the middle and left. The front elevation is built entirely in red brick using English garden wall bond, sitting above a projecting rendered and painted base course, and topped with a brick parapet at eaves level. The façade is divided into two panels by three shallow brick piers with stop-end chamfers—one at each end and one to the left of the coach arch at right. A moulded terracotta string course runs between the ground and first floors, with a narrower one between the first floor and roof parapet. This upper string course is coped with concrete and makes a ramped step over the piers; the parapet is also raised between pairs of first-floor windows, concealing the middle chimney from view.

At the extreme left is a door opening flanked by the corner pier at left and a pilaster rising to first-floor level at right. The door is modern timber panelled with a segmental-headed transom light above, set into a rectangular opening. At the extreme right is a coach arch flanked by the two wall piers and containing a two-leaf modern corrugated metal door. Its semi-elliptical brick head is painted "Central Laundry". Between the left door and right arch are two shop fronts. The left shopfront contains three plate-glass windows fitted with fixed metal grilles and a door at right with transom over, all with segmental-headed timber frames set into rectangular openings. A painted fascia reads "Felix McNally / MPSNI / Dispensing Chemist". To the right is a timber shopfront, now boarded up, with a painted wooden fascia reading "Central Laundry / Ltd."

At first floor are two pairs of 1/1 top-hung timber windows (one pair above each shop) and a fifth identical window above the coach arch. All windows have terracotta acanthus keyblocks, chamfered brick jambs and granite cills. Between the two pairs of windows is a projecting box sign with a cast-iron downpipe from a rainwater valley behind the parapet, which turns along the top of the chemist's sign and continues to ground level at the right side of the right pilaster to the leftmost door. The right gable is abutted by an adjoining building. The left gable is partially abutted by an adjoining building, with an exposed section of painted brick to ground floor reading "Pharmacy / McNally's".

The rear elevation is cement rendered. Rainwater gutters are plastic on this side. The coach arch at left has a horizontal head on this façade and is supported across the middle of the passage by a steel girder. A wall runs from the coachway to form a yard at right. Immediately to the right of the coach arch, inside the yard, is a door with transom light over (both now infilled) leading from the laundry. This leads into a passage with a lean-to slate roof running along the inside face of the yard wall and connecting with the actual laundry at the rear of the property.

The rear of the chemist's shop is abutted by a one-storey lean-to with a central door and small lights either side, which partially obscures a window at the rear of the chemist's. The first floor has three 1/1 sliding sash windows—two above the yard and one above the coach arch—all with granite cills and fitted with metal grilles. The return has a flat roof with brick chimney and cement-rendered walls. There is a door in the middle of the ground-floor yard elevation and a 1/1 sliding sash window either side, with two identical windows to first floor. All these openings have metal grilles.

The actual laundry comprises a large one-storey shed with a sarked corrugated asbestos-cement gabled roof over steel trusses, cement-rendered rubble granite walls and concrete floor. There are louvred ventilators in both gables. This building is now in a very poor state of repair and devoid of machinery except for an extractor fan.