9 Havelock Place, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NE

9 Havelock Place is a two-storey house with three bays and a semi-basement, forming part of a larger terrace in Warrenpoint. The building dates to the late 18th or early 19th century, appearing on the 1834 Valuation town map. Historical records show it was measured in 1835 at 43 feet by 26 feet by 23 feet 6 inches high, including a basement. By 1861 it had become the Royal Hotel, retaining the same dimensions from the 1830s. The building reverted to residential use around 1864, became a convent in 1890, and in the late 1920s served as headquarters for INF branch 425.

The front elevation presents the principal architectural character. It features a pitched natural slate roof with render applied to the right verge only. Two wall-head dormers punctuate the front pitch, each with a hipped natural slate roof and exposed rafter tails. Cement-rendered coped chimneys sit at each gable, both topped with octagonal yellow 19th-century pots. The principal elevation is lined rendered and painted with stepped V-channelled stucco quoins. A deep slightly advanced eaves course carries half-round metal gutters. The central bay, narrower than the flanking bays, contains the main entrance at ground floor, reached by five steps enclosed by a splayed dwarf wall carrying plain railings and passing over the basement passage. The entrance comprises a pair of narrow two-panelled doors with raised and fielded panels set below an infilled semicircular fanlight, framed by a broad painted render architrave. The ground floor has two exposed box 1/1 sliding sash windows with painted granite cills to both the left and right bays. The first floor contains five identical but diminished windows aligned with those below.

The basement level shows a modern double-leaf timber door to the left bay and a 1/1 sash window to its right. The central bay is enclosed by rendered walls beneath the entrance approach. The right bay has two 1/1 sash windows. Both gables are largely abutted by neighbouring structures; the left is completely abutted, while the right is partially abutted with its exposed section left blank.

The rear elevation is cement rendered and interrupted at centre by a stairwell return with a hipped natural slate roof that ties into the main roof pitch. This stairwell return has blank cheeks and its rear wall features a large modern window between ground and first floors and a 1/1 sash window between first floor and attic level. Two 1/1 sliding sash windows occupy the ground floor left. The remainder of the ground floor is abutted by a single-storey return with pitched natural slate roof aligned parallel to the main roof. The first floor has one 1/1 sash window in each of the left and right bays. At second floor, dormers match those on the facade. The rear return is bounded by yard walls at each gable. A large modern single-storey extension with corrugated metal roof fills the entire rear yard and abuts the rear wall. The front area is enclosed by a rendered and painted dwarf wall carrying plain railings, with matching gates to the main entrance and at the left end.

The building retains some external character but has little of architectural or historical interest internally or at the rear. Insufficient historic fabric survives to warrant statutory protection. The record was delisted on 26 March 2004.