71 Drumarkin Road, Rathfriland, Co. Down, BT34 5MD

A long asymmetrical two-storey three-bay house, built between 1833 and 1859, located at Tirkelly TD, north-east of Rathfriland. Rectangular on plan. Pitched natural slate roof with angled clay ridge tiles and ruled-and-lined cement rendered chimneystacks to gables and to party wall between central and right bay. Projecting rendered eaves course supporting half round cast iron rainwater goods. Walling is ruled-and-lined cement rendered with stepped quoins; no plinth, but there is a slight batter to right bay. Windows are timber sash to principal elevation, 8/8 to ground floor, 8/4 to first floor, with painted masonry cills. Timber casements to rear. Four-raised-and-fielded panelled timber door with bolection moulding and cast-iron door furniture; segmental spoked transom; all surrounded by a painted moulded masonry surround on plinth blocks, accessed by a granite step. Principal elevation faces west. Left and right bays have a window to each floor; central bay is wider and has entrance offset to left and a window to right; first floor openings arranged over. North gable is blank. Rear elevation has asymmetrical fenestration of various sizes; modern glazed timber door to central bay right, and French doors to left bay. South gable is blank. Setting The house is aligned with the road, set back behind a small front garden; the site is bounded to the road by a roughcast boundary wall and a gravel path (on axis with the front door) and is accessed by a wrought-iron pedestrian gate on wide square piers with pyramidal stone caps. Alcoved entrance walls to a short gravel drive at right side of house are terminated with square piers supporting reclaimed wrought-iron gates. There is a paved terrace to rear, and a garden enclosed by modern walls to north. Directly opposite (in separate ownership) is a single-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof, set gable to the road. Walls are rubble stone with vestiges of lime render, cement rendered to north side. To the gable wall is a datestone which is largely illegible (possibly 1796). Roof: Slate Walling: Rendered Windows: Sash RWG: Cast-iron