Newry Baptist Church, 11 Downshire Place, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1DZ

Newry Baptist Church is a Grade B+ listed building forming the left section of a symmetrical terrace of four two-storey houses with semi-basement and attic storey, located on the east side of Downshire Road. The building is three bays wide and features a hipped artificial slate roof with an L-shape, gabled on the right where it adjoins number 9. Cement rendered chimneys with projecting caps rise from either end of the front ridge, the right chimney being shared with the adjacent property.

The front facade is painted line render with stepped render quoins and plain rendered projecting eaves course. A single granite step rises to a granite paved platform in front of the main ground floor entrance, flanked by original palmette-headed cast iron railings. Metal boot scrapers are inset into the granite paving on either side of the doorway. The door itself is painted timber with beaded muntin and four bolection moulded panels. The door frame is of reeded timber and is flanked by two three-quarter attached granite Tuscan columns supporting a moulded granite entablature. Above is a decorative lead Greek Revival rectangular transom light. The entrance opening features one-piece moulded granite jambs with scrolled consoles at the top supporting a moulded granite cornice. A modern glazed timber sign is mounted on the wall to the right of the front door.

At ground floor, the left and right bays contain single 6/6 sliding sash windows with horizontal drip moulds featuring foliated stops. These and all other windows have horns and painted granite cills unless otherwise stated. At basement level are 3/3 sliding sash windows without labels, positioned in line with the ground floor windows. Underneath the entrance platform is a porch which divides the passage across the front of the basement, with a tongue-and-groove sheeted door on the right cheek. At first floor are three equally spaced labelled windows, matching those at ground floor but slightly diminished in height.

The left elevation is rendered to match the facade, with passages to the front and similar quoins at each corner and projecting eaves course. There are three equally spaced 3/3 sliding sash windows at basement level, and at ground and first floors are three labelled 6/6 sashes in line with each other, those at first floor being slightly diminished in height.

The right gable forms the party wall with the adjacent property. The basement to the rear elevation is at ground level due to the site's sloping topography. The right section of this elevation forms a hipped return to the front section, with painted unlined render and a projecting eaves course. The angle between the back of the main block and the left cheek of the return is infilled with a one-storey extension. The exposed section of the main block wall at left contains a pair of small modern top-hung casement windows with concrete cills at basement level. At ground floor left is a 3/3 sliding sash window; all other rear sashes lack horns. To the right, on the half landing between ground and first floor (over the extension) is a tall 6/6 sliding sash half-landing window. At first floor left, in line with the ground floor window, is a 6/6 sliding sash window. The gable wall of the return formerly had a chimney, now removed. At basement level is a pair of modern timber and glass doors with matching sidelights. At ground floor, on the left and right, are single 1/1 sliding sashes. The left cheek of the return is abutted to the basement by the extension. At first floor is a single 3/3 sliding sash window with horns and concrete cill.

The extension has a hipped, overhanging artificial slate roof and smooth rendered walls. Its rear wall contains a pair of modern doors with sidelights. To the immediate left of these doors is a small modern top-hung window, with a similar window to the left cheek.

The front garden is bounded to the street by a painted and rendered coped wall, with a concrete path from the gate leading to the entrance steps. The side garden is bounded by a random rubble wall and contains a stained timber picket fence with a gate to the rear garden. The rear garden is enclosed on the sides by granite rubble walls and at the back by a modern rendered cement coped wall with a pair of timber gates to Church Avenue.