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

This is the third house up from the bottom of a terrace of seven identical buildings that slopes down St. Colman's Park. The main house is three storeys high—formerly with a basement—and two bays wide. It is constructed of squared rubble granite walls brought to courses with a pitched natural slate roof. The building stands at the same height as number 13 and slightly raised above number 17.

Exterior Features

The right party wall carries a rendered chimney with half-round metal guttering and downpipe at the left. At ground floor, the right bay contains a modern reproduction four-panel painted timber door with a small rectangular transom light over. At the time of survey, the original cement render around the door head and jambs was removed, revealing brickwork underneath. Above the door opening is a projecting entablature supported on scrolled consoles at the top of the jambs; both are modern reproductions in cast cement. A boot scraper stands to the right of the door. To the left of the door is an 8/8 sliding sash window. Below this, the brick head of a basement window, now infilled, remains visible.

At first floor are two 6/6 sliding sash windows positioned in line with the ground floor openings. At second floor are three smaller 3/3 sash windows. All windows are modern reproductions with granite cills and cement-rendered heads with stepped jambs over brick. Three-piece keystoned lintels surmount the ground and first floor window heads. The wrought iron railings that formerly ran along the front of the house, built over a passage across the basement, have been removed from their chamfered granite plinth. Both gables are abutted by similar buildings; the exposed section of gable at left is cement rendered.

At the rear, the walls are unrendered with half-round metal rainwater goods. There is no trace of any external passage across the former basement. A modern one-storey extension abuts at left, with a monopitched roof in corrugated asbestos, cement-rendered walls, a metal-framed window to the back wall, and a modern door on the right cheek.

The rear elevation shows a 6/6 sliding sash window at ground floor right and at first floor right; the second floor window has been removed. At left, windows to both half landings were undergoing replacement with replicas at the time of survey. All window openings on this elevation have brick heads and stepped jambs; some have three-piece keystoned lintels above. The rear window openings have brick heads and stepped jambs.

Outbuilding

Along the back of the yard stands a two-storey outhouse forming part of a continuous block running the length of the terrace. It has a natural slate pitched gable roof and random rubble granite walls, with missing rainwater goods on both slopes. At left on the elevation facing north is a segmental-headed brick-trimmed coach arch with a pair of tongue-and-groove sheeted doors. Above this arch is a smaller tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door. At right on each floor is an infilled ventilation slit. Both gables are abutted by similar buildings. The yard elevation has a door at right and window at left on the ground floor, with an identical window opening directly above at first floor. Both window openings lack frames.