Springfield House, 21 Redbridge Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5AH

Springfield House is a two-storey, three-bay house of mid-19th-century date (1840–1859), situated off Redbridge Road in mature grounds with a farmyard and associated outbuildings to the rear.

The pitched natural slate roof features cement-rendered and coped chimneys to each gable, with metal rainwater goods. Two wall head dormers project from the rear pitch; each has a flat felt roof, timber cheeks, and a side-hung casement window with a fixed pane. The walls are rendered in painted lined cement with an advanced eaves course and stepped V-channelled stucco quoins to the main façade.

The south-facing main façade fronts Redbridge Road. At ground floor centre is the principal entrance, set within a semi-elliptical headed opening. A single granite step leads to a modern eight-panelled varnished timber door mounted in its original frame and flanked by sidelights with bolection-moulded apron panels. A fanlight fills the opening head, consisting of two small semi-elliptical lights with a glazed spandrel and stop-end chamfered glazing bars. The door head features a dentilled timber lintel. Single 1/1 sliding sash windows occupy the ground floor left and right bays, with three similar windows aligned on the first floor above.

The western gable is blank except for two ground floor windows. The rear elevation is abutted at ground floor left by a single-storey return. At ground floor right is a window. At centre between ground and first floors stands a spoke-headed 3/6 sliding sash window with obscured glass and coloured margins, lighting the stairwell. First floor left and right have single windows, with a spoke-headed 3/3 sash window at centre between first floor and attic level.

The single-storey return has a pitched natural slate roof, half-hipped where it joins the house, with a cement-rendered chimney to its exposed gable and plastic rainwater goods. Its walls are painted smooth cement render. Five granite steps at the right side of its right cheek serve a modern varnished door, with a modern casement window to its left. The northern gable is blank. A single-storey flat-roofed extension abuts the left cheek. The eastern gable is blank except for two narrow ground floor windows.

The entrance from Redbridge Road consists of a pair of strap-pointed rock-faced granite piers with a curved screen. The wrought and cast-iron gates are off their hinges and lie on the driveway. A large lawned garden fronts the house, accessed to the left by wrought-iron gates with dog-bars and cast-iron finials. Outbuildings enclose the rear yard; most are relatively recent, though a two-storey barn with a pitched natural slate roof and random rubble walls with brick dressings to openings survives, featuring an external stone staircase, though recently altered.

Historical records indicate the building was surveyed in the Historic Monuments and Buildings of the Down and Dromore Diocese first survey but was not allocated a heritage building number. That survey description mentions "a projecting porch with pilasters rising to an entablature, surmounted by a balustrade", a feature shown on the 1972 Ordnance Survey map. The porch does not appear on the 1834 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, first appearing on the 1860 edition. A circa 1862 valuation describes the property as a two-storey house measuring 37 feet by 30 feet, consistent with its present form.

Although the building retains much of its original fabric, it is typical of mid-19th-century domestic architecture and is not considered particularly special in terms of historic or architectural interest.