23 School Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5QA is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

23 School Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5QA

WRENN ID
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Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Constituency
South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Address
23 School Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5QA, Lissize, BT34 5QA
Irish grid reference
J 197 337
Coordinates
54.23892, -6.16458
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A two-storey house was built in the mid-19th century (approximately 1840-1859) and was located at 23 School Road, Rathfriland, Newry, County Down. It has since been demolished and replaced by a modern house set back from the road. The house first appears on an Ordnance Survey town plan from 1860, but not on a preceding map of 1833, suggesting a construction date in the middle of the 19th century. In about 1862, it was described in a valuation book as measuring approximately 28 feet by 18 feet and two storeys high. A 1970 survey card from the Historic Monuments and Buildings Branch described a house with rendered walls designed to resemble masonry, a slated roof, and double-hung windows with full glazing bars set in square openings. The survey concluded the style was “poor” and the house had a frontage of approximately 40 feet, appearing on Ordnance Survey maps from 1903 onwards. The house was originally situated in the townland of Lissize.

Local climate

23 School Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5QA sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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