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

11 St. Colman's Park, Newry, is a three-storey granite townhouse with basement, forming part of a terrace of seven identical buildings that slope down St. Colman's Park. Built between 1820 and 1839 as part of a mid-19th century town planning scheme initiated by James McAllister, it is the third building from the top end of the terrace.

The street façade demonstrates considerable architectural merit. The building is two bays wide with squared rubble granite walls brought to courses and a pitched natural slate roof. The ground floor features a six-panel painted timber door on the right, a modern replacement without transom light, flanked by cement-rendered brick jambs and head with a moulded architrave. Above the jambs are scrolled consoles supporting a projecting entablature. A boot scraper stands to the right of the door. To the left is an 8/8 sliding sash window with a modern top-hung basement window beneath. The basement walls are rendered. The first floor contains two 6/6 sliding sash windows aligned with the ground floor openings. The second floor has three smaller 3/3 sash windows. All windows have granite cills and cement-rendered stepped jambs over brick, with three-piece keystoned lintels above the ground and first floor heads. A rendered chimney projects from the left party wall. Plastic gutters share a metal down pipe with adjacent numbers 9 and 7.

Wrought iron railings run along the top of the basement passage at the front, returning along the exposed side entrance. These railings sit upon a chamfered granite plinth with cast-iron urn-topped posts, matching those of the other terrace buildings and the corner block fronting John Mitchel Place.

The left and right gables are abutted by similar buildings, with the exposed section of the left gable cement rendered. At the rear, walls are entirely cement rendered with half-round metal rainwater goods. An external passage to the basement contains a modern 1/1 top-hung window. Above this is a modern three-pane window to the ground floor, a 6/6 sliding sash to the first floor, and a 3/3 sash to the top floor. At the left is a modern door at the position of the former window on the half-landing between ground and first floor, leading to a reinforced-concrete balcony from which concrete steps descend to the yard. A modern glazed and sheeted door serves the basement. At the half-landing between first and second floors is a 6/6 sash window.

A two-storey outbuilding block forms part of a continuous block running the length of the terrace. It has a natural slate pitched gable roof and rubble granite walls brought to courses, with rainwater goods now missing. At the left of the ground floor, on the elevation facing north, is a semi-elliptically headed coach arch with rendered head and jambs, containing a vertically-sheeted timber door. Above is a sheeted timber loading door. At the right on both floors are small ventilation slits, now infilled. The yard-facing elevation is not accessible.

The building is shown on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map as part of McAllister's Terrace, which originally included numbers 1, 3, and 5 (above no. 7), all now demolished. A 1835 valuation records the property as belonging to James McAllister, who also owned the corner block, and notes it as unfinished, implying it was still under construction but likely completed shortly thereafter. The terrace forms one side of the square and is situated within a conservation area.