11 Sandy's Street, Newry, ** See General Comments **

11 Sandy's Street, Newry

One of a terrace of four three-storey houses with attic, symmetrically arranged around a central coach arch on the south side of Sandy's Street. This building stands immediately to the left of the coach arch, which it shares with number 10. It is three bays wide, though the second floor front room and attic belong to number 10.

The pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with a modern skylight to both pitches, and a rendered chimney rises from the left gable. Half-round metal gutters with a downpipe run down the left side of the facade. The rendered walls are painted and line rendered. A canted bay with a finialed artificial slate hipped roof rises to the eaves on the left side.

The ground floor features banded rustication. A plain projecting cill course runs at first floor level, with a moulded cill course at second floor and a moulded cornice above. Platbands run below each of these courses. The front door is a four-panel painted timber original with a rectangular transom. The left bay contains 1/1 sliding sash windows to each face with granite cills, with identical windows to the upper floors. To the right of the door is a segmental coach arch with an infilled head and a platband across the facade following the line of the head; it contains a pair of tongued and grooved sheeted doors. The bay containing the front door has a 1/1 sliding sash window at first and second floor, with the door slightly offset to the right of the window above. Above the coach arch are similar but much narrower windows to each floor, the top one belonging to number 10. All windows have stop-ended chamfered reveals and granite cills; those at the top are diminished in height.

The right and left gables form party walls with the adjoining houses. The building is separated from the footpath by a rendered brick wall, with two granite steps leading from the street to the path and a granite step to the front door.

The rear wall is cement rendered. A two-storey return abuts at the middle, with a 1/1 sliding sash window to each floor of the main block to its right. Above the return is a 1/1 sliding sash window to the half-landings between first and second floors. To the left of the return is a coach arch at ground floor, the inside faces of which are unrendered brick. Above this are 1/1 sash windows to each floor. The return has a pitched natural slate roof with a skylight in the left pitch and rendered walls. It has one window at ground floor and one at first floor on the left cheek. The right cheek contains a central door with a 1/1 sliding sash window to either side, the right one boarded up. Above are two 2/2 sashes in line with the windows below. A tall chimney rises from the back gable of the return, which is also abutted by a one-storey lean-to with a corrugated asbestos roof. This lean-to has a sheeted timber door on its right cheek and a small two-pane fixed window on its left cheek.

The yard to the rear is enclosed by a two-storey outhouse, shared with number 12. It has a pitched natural slate roof, random rubble granite walls, and brick dressings to openings. A sheeted timber door stands at ground floor left on the elevation facing the house. To its right is an opening with a sheeted timber shutter with vertical timber bars. At first floor are two openings: the one above the door is open with vertical bars, and the one at right is a six-pane fixed light.

The building first appears in the 1880 entry of the Valuation revision book, though it was first occupied in 1881. Its lessor was Elizabeth Anderson, who also owned the other houses in the terrace, erected around the same time. The outbuilding is noted as having been finished in the 1883 valuation entry. The building is mostly original and intact and is important both as part of the group of four terraced houses and within the context of Sandy's Street.