12 Great George's Street, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NF

This is a two-and-a-half-storey, two-bay house, built between 1840 and 1859, at the right-hand end of a terrace on the south side of Great George’s Street, Warrenpoint. While the house itself remains little altered, the terrace in which it stands has been significantly changed, affecting its overall appearance. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate, with an advanced eaves course supporting half-round cast-iron gutters. The exterior walls are rendered and painted. A corbelled chimney, rendered, is located on the left party wall, adjoined by a building listed separately (HB16/11/034E). A wide, central dormer window with a pitched roof and carved timber bargeboard is situated on the front. The principal elevation faces southeast toward the street. The semicircular-headed entrance opening, set on the ground floor to the left, includes a “t+g” (tongue and groove) sheeted door with a plain fanlight above, lacking glazing bars. A 1/1 sliding sash window with horns and a painted cill is in the right-hand bay of the ground floor. All windows are of this style. First floor windows are present in each bay, with the window over the entrance being narrower than the one to the right. The dormer window contains a pair of sashes with reduced height. The front area is enclosed by a low wall with cast-iron railings featuring plain bars, surrounding a small garden. The left-hand gable is fully abutted by the adjacent building (HB16/11/034E), and the right-hand gable is abutted by another adjacent building (HB16/11/032). The rear elevation was not inspected. The house was not shown on the 1834 town map, but appears on the 1861 map and was described in the 1863 Valuation Book as measuring 6.25 yards by 8.75 yards, and being two-and-two-thirds storeys high with a 1.5-storey return. It is confirmed that this description refers to the building standing today.