Building to rear of, No. 9 Abbey Yard, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2EG

Two storey out-building to the rear of nos. 7-9 Abbey Yard, Newry, accessed through the coach arch of the link block between nos. 9 and 10. An important part of the Abbey Yard complex with most exterior features remaining.

The building has a hipped roof to the right elevation and a gabled roof to the left, covered in asbestos slate with a single brick chimney to the left gable and two large skylights along the ridge. Rainwater goods are semicircular metal with downpipes to the front, rear and right elevations. The walls are painted lined cement render with raised eaves course.

The north-facing façade features an off-centre semicircular headed coach arch with plain render jambs and head, containing a pair of diagonally sheeted timber doors with a similar fixed panel in the arch head. To the left and right of the coach arch are three and two windows respectively, all 12/12 sliding sashes with no horns and painted granite cills. At the extreme left of the ground floor is a modern diagonally sheeted timber door. At first floor level are three large equally spaced 16-pane metal-framed windows with the middle eight centre-pivoting. To the extreme left at first floor is a modern metal ventilation flue, and immediately to its right is a modern sheet metal door with metal escape stair to ground floor. The ground floor right corner has a quarter-chamfered wall.

The rear elevation is abutted to the right by the gable of the poultry shop out-building. It has a similar gabled return to the left of centre, with painted random rubble walls containing two first floor openings now infilled with concrete blocks. The remaining wall to the right of the gabled return is painted lined cement render with single modern doors to ground and first floor, the latter accessed by a metal dogleg stair from the courtyard. A single storey rear return has a pitched corrugated metal roof, its rear gable filled by a Gothic-headed coach arch with chamfered granite jambs and head. The spandrel over the head is built up into a gable with random granite rubble. The right cheek is painted random rubble with no openings, while the left cheek is painted lined cement render with no openings.

The site was owned by the Corry family from the mid-18th century. This building was erected as an outbuilding to a terrace of dwellings created by Isaac Corry (Member of Parliament and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Irish parliament) sometime after 1760. The building does not appear on John Rocque's map of 1760, when the area was at the bottom end of Boat Street. It is likely of late 18th or early 19th century date and appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. From the early 1900s until 1972 it formed part of the Christian Brothers School complex. Upon the school's relocation, the premises fell into dereliction until restoration by Clanrye Community Workshop between 1986 and 1991. The building is now used as part of a university or college building and is situated within a conservation area.