17 Windsor Hill, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1ER

17 Windsor Hill, Newry

A two-storey, three-bay house set in mature grounds on the east side of Windsor Hill. The pitched natural slate roof features scalloped terracotta ridges, hip knobs and overhanging eaves. Three return roofs tie into the rear pitch—those to left and right are pitched while the centre is hipped. A stepped red brick chimney with yellow brick banding rises from the roof ridge between the left and centre bays.

The façade is dominated by a two-storey canted bay at the front left with matching natural slate roof, terracotta ridges and hip knob. The walls are constructed of red brick with a chamfered base course and a single course of black bricks at the head level of the ground floor windows. A moulded brick string course separates the ground and first floors, with a second projecting course at first floor window cill level. A further course of black and yellow bricks marks the head level of the first floor windows. Cast-iron, ogee-profile rainwater goods run throughout.

The main entrance occupies a gabled brick porch in the central bay. The porch roof is pitched ashlar granite rising from moulded granite kneestones, with red brick walls matching the façade base course. The walls splay outward on either side of the door opening. A single granite step leads to a pair of multi-panelled timber doors with glazed top panels and a plain semicircular fanlight above, all set within a semi-elliptical headed chamfered opening. A course of purple brick surmounts this opening, topped by a projecting moulded string course. The gable apex displays an inset foliated terracotta diamond panel. Projecting stepped brick plinths with chamfered granite caps flank the door opening.

All windows throughout are 1/1 sashes with segmental heads, swept stooled ends and granite cills. Those to the ground floor façade have decorative terracotta lintels with embossed rosettes, raised keystone and roll-mould chamfering. First floor windows have chamfered brick reveals and heads. A pair of windows above the porch share a common cill broken by the ridge of the porch roof. The left canted bay contains single 1/1 sliding sashes to each cheek on both floors. The right bay has a pair of windows at ground floor with a single window centred above.

The right elevation is two bays wide, with the left bay gabled. Wall details match the façade. The gable is decorated with three different bands of red, black and yellow bricks. At ground floor left is a single-storey rectangular bay with a pair of windows to front; at right is a single-storey canted bay window with a single window to each cheek. Both projecting bays are capped by a granite blocking course at the cill level of the first floor. The first floor has two pairs of windows, each aligned with those below.

The left elevation is two bays wide, with the right bay forming a projecting two-storey gable. Wall and gable detailing match the right elevation. The ground floor left has a pair of windows, above which is a large segmental headed stained glass landing window with yellow and black brick panels below its cill. The right gable contains a 1/1 sash to each floor.

The rear elevation is abutted by three returns. The left and right returns (viewed from rear) are gabled with natural slate and each has a stepped red brick chimney with yellow banding to the ends. The left return's left wall is blank, and its end gable is abutted by a single-storey return with exposed blank gable above. The right cheek forms a party wall with the middle return. The smaller central return has a pitched natural slate roof and rendered gable. The right return's right cheek continues the string courses from the main block, with 1/1 sashes to each floor. Its gable is abutted by a one-and-a-half-storey return with blank wall above. The left cheek projects forward from the middle return and has a single 1/1 sash to each floor. The smaller right return has a pitched natural slate roof, with a sliding sash to ground floor on its right cheek and 1/1 sashes to each floor on the gable. Its left cheek has a central door and 1/1 sash to its right. Linking the two returns is a central return with a natural slate hipped roof, containing a modern top-hung timber window and two 1/1 sliding sashes at ground floor, and two 1/1 sliding sashes at first floor.

The boundary to Windsor Hill comprises coursed granite rubble with rock-faced coping. Square ashlar gate piers on chamfered bases feature oversailing pyramidal tops, with a wrought iron pedestrian gate. The front and side gardens are lawned with planting and shade trees. A wall between the left and right returns encloses a rear yard containing a manually operated cast iron water pump. An outhouse stands on the rear boundary wall with Arthur Street, with a pitched natural slate roof, random rubble walls with red brick dressings and openings to all sides.