Loane's Drapery, 4 Cardinal O'Fiaich Square, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, BT35 9AA

Loane's Drapery was a substantial two-storey rendered terrace house with an integral shop, dating from around the 1840s. It stood on the north-west side of Cardinal O'Fiaich Square at the centre of Crossmaglen, its front facade facing south-east. The building is now demolished and replaced with a new-build hotel.

The front elevation was asymmetrical. To the right of centre was the house doorway, comprising a seven-panel timber door with a large rectangular fanlight, encased in a moulded architrave with a keystone detail. The mouldings to the openings may date to the late 19th or early 20th century. To the left of the doorway was a large shop front of mid 20th-century character, with large plate glass windows flanking a panelled timber double door topped with a large rectangular fanlight. Above this was a tiled panel dating from around 1940s-50s, with a relatively small central timber signboard. To the right of the house doorway was a plain sash window with moulded surround and hood on plain brackets, set on a sill course. The first floor displayed four plain sash windows with moulded surrounds with ears, also set on a sill course. The front facade was finished in painted lined render with moulded quoins and a bracketed sill course.

The south-west gable was completely obscured by the adjacent taller two-storey neighbouring property, a former bank. The uppermost third of the north-east gable was exposed, finished in plain unpainted render with a small plain sash attic window to the left and a similar-sized Georgian-paned sash window (8/8) to the right.

The rear elevation of the original portion was largely obscured by a large mid 20th-century double-pile extension. At the centre of the original rear elevation was a two-storey projection with a shallow-pitched lean-to roof. The ground floor of the south-east face of this projection contained a timber-sheeted door and a plain sash window. The upper level had two plain sash windows. To the rear facade of the main section (left of the projection) was a sash window to the ground floor with horizontal glazing bars (2/2) and one to the first floor with Georgian panes (6/6). The remainder of the rear elevation, including the north-west face of the projection, was obscured by the extension, but internal evidence suggested that this face had two first-floor sash windows. The rear elevation of the original building was finished in painted render.

The roof of the original section was gabled and slated, with small cast iron skylights to the left-hand side at the front and the right-hand side at the rear. There were three brick chimney stacks, probably dating from the early 20th century, and cast iron rainwater goods.

The extension was finished in roughcast render with a hipped and gabled asbestos-slated double-pile roof featuring large cast iron skylights. There were no openings to the exposed faces of the extension, though the south-east face had projecting structural piers. The extension spanned what had previously been an open yard, creating a large enclosed store or outbuilding. Within this store area were a small original outbuilding to the south-east side and a long outbuilding to the north-west side. Both had originally been single-storey, but their roofs had been removed to accommodate the large extension. In the middle of the formerly open yard was a large round metal plate, possibly covering a well.