19 St. Colman’s Park, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2BX

19 St. Colman's Park, Newry

This is the bottom building of a seven-house terrace that slopes down St. Colman's Park. All houses in the terrace are of identical construction, built from squared rubble granite walls brought to courses, with pitched natural slate roofs.

The building is three storeys high (formerly also with a basement) and three bays wide, standing at the same height as number 17. A rendered chimney on the right is shared with number 17, and half-round metal guttering with a downpipe runs along the left side.

The street elevation features a modern four-panel painted timber door at the centre with a rectangular transom light above. The door opening is flat-headed with splayed voussoirs in ashlar granite, a projecting keystone, and vee-jointed ashlar jambs. To the left is a coach arch with vee-jointed ashlar jambs and a semi-elliptical head, complete with imposts and a projecting keystone; this now contains a pair of modern metal gates. To the right sits a semi-elliptical headed window opening with identical detailing to the coach arch, containing a smaller rectangular 6/6 sliding sash window with cement rendering in the space between its frame and the arch reveal. Below this, the in-splayed flat granite lintel of the former basement is just visible.

The first floor contains three 6/6 sliding sash windows, one above each opening below, with a projecting hanging sign between the two left windows. The second floor has three 3/3 sliding sash windows in line. All windows have granite cills. Those on the upper floors are finished with cement-rendered heads and stepped jambs (undoubtedly over brick), and the first floor openings feature three-piece keystoned lintels above their rendered heads.

Reproduction metal railings with urn-topped posts run along the small front garden on a chamfered granite plinth, returning along the exposed side of the entrance steps. Similar railings run between the coach arch and front door, consistent with those fronting the other terrace houses and the corner block fronting John Mitchel Place.

At the rear, unrendered walls feature half-round metal rainwater goods. A one-storey extension abuts the ground floor's left two bays, obscuring the original openings; the coach arch here has a brick head. The left and right bays contain 6/6 sliding sash windows on the first floor and 3/3 sashes on the second floor. The middle bay has 6/6 sashes on half-landings between ground and first floors and between first and second floors, all brick-trimmed. Many upper floor windows have three-piece keystoned lintels above brick heads. The modern extension has a flat roof, rendered walls, and a modern window to the back wall.

At the rear of the yard stands a two-storey outbuilding contiguous with one at the back of number 17. It has a hipped asbestos slate roof, plastic rainwater goods, and random rubble granite walls. The north wall is blank, and the right gable is abutted by a similar building. The yard elevation features a large rectangular opening at ground floor filled by a 15-pane door with 15-pane side panels on either side, and a 3/3 sliding sash window at first floor right. The left gable is abutted by a one-storey flat-roofed extension with two 3/3 sliding sash windows to the yard elevation.