Kiltarriff Hall, Drumlough Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5DN

Kiltarriff Hall is a late 19th-century two-storey farmhouse with three bays, set back from Drumlough Road on its western side in mature grounds. The building displays sophisticated architectural detailing characteristic of the period.

The roof structure is complex, comprising three pitched sections with natural slate covering. The left section (viewed from the road) runs west-east with a gable to the façade. The central and right sections run north-south, with a decorative gable to the right, tied into the left roof at its end. A further west-east pitched roof abuts the rear right. All sections have terracotta ridges, overhanging eaves with decorated rafter tails carrying half-round cast iron gutters. The gables feature moulded timber bargeboards pierced with quatrefoils and other motifs. The two west-east roof pitches each carry two red brick chimneystacks with broad bases and two square stacks per stack, decorated with corbelled brick copings.

The external walls are cement rendered (except the rear walls) with a chamfered basecourse and moulded stringcourse between ground and first floors. All windows are 1/1 sliding sashes with stop-end chamfered reveals and sloping granite cills. Front elevation windows have rusticated stucco lintels to the ground floor and rusticated keyblocks to the first floor.

The eastern elevation contains three distinct bays. The left bay (under its gable) advances slightly and features a two-storey canted bay window with a steep lean-to natural slate roof abutting the gable; each floor has a single window to the front and each cheek. The central bay contains the main entrance: a pair of varnished multi-panelled timber storm doors glazed with bulls-eye panes, with a leaded transom in a shouldered arch above, all in late 19th-century Arts and Crafts detail. At first floor is a rectangular opening set in the eaves, divided into two panels, each containing apron panels below with a two-paned leaded side-hung casement window above, with cusped heads in Arts and Crafts leaded style. The right bay is widest, set beneath a centred decorative gable, and contains two windows on each floor. A granite plaque set in the gable is incised "Wm. Fegan / 1880".

The southern elevation of the main block has three windows on each floor, arranged two to the left and one to the right, all with chamfered reveals.

The rear elevation faces the farmyard and is smooth-lined rendered. The left gable is blank and abutted by a single-storey gabled return with pitched natural slate roof and rendered walls. Its northern cheek has two 1/1 windows in chamfered reveals, flush with the main block; its southern (yard-facing) cheek has a 1/1 sliding sash to the left and a modern glazed door to the right. A single-storey lean-to return extends along the ground floor with a mono-pitch natural slate roof and continues south to enclose the yard's eastern side. Its yard-facing wall contains (from left to right) a sheeted door, a 1/1 sash window, a steel casement window, and an open section providing light to a narrow 1/1 sash window further right. The wall then advances slightly continuing south, with a small window and pair of sheeted doors to the left and a vehicle opening serving a sliding door on the rear east wall. This eastern wall fronts the house gardens and is rendered as the main block, with embattled wall head featuring moulded copings to embrasures and merlons, a central chimney stack matching those of the main roof, and an applied stucco cartouche. Two 1/1 sliding sashes flank the vehicle entrance, which has a sheeted timber rolling door.

At first floor, the rear elevation has a four-paned fixed landing light with transoms to the left and a gable to the right with a window to its side.

The northern elevation of the main block displays the decorative gable advancing at the left side, featuring a canted bay window identical to that on the façade. The remaining ground floor wall has a uPVC door in an original window opening at the left and two windows to the right. Three similar windows occupy the first floor in line with openings below, all with chamfered reveals.

An L-shaped outbuilding abuts the gabled return, enclosing the remaining north and west sides of the yard. It is two storeys with pitched natural slate roof, rubble granite stone walls, sheeted doors, and various window openings, all with segmental brick relieving arches.

The southern and lower western sides of the yard are enclosed by a single-storey linear outbuilding with lean-to natural slate roof and rendered walls containing an assortment of original openings.

A long-tailed domestic water pump stands in the yard, which extends further west through a second vehicle entrance into a modern farmyard.

The large front garden is planted with mature trees and shrubs. It is enclosed to the east (road side) by a low wall of squared rock-faced granite blocks brought to courses. The entrance at the northern end, set back, comprises two matching gate piers with overhanging copings supporting iron gates with alternate dog bars, all bars topped with cast iron finials. A cattle grid sits between the piers.