48 Dromore Street, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5LU

This is a much altered farmhouse, likely built between 1840 and 1859. It is situated on a triangular site at the junction of the Banbridge Road and Ballyroney Road in Rathfriland. The building is two storeys high with a semi-basement and originally had three bays. It was first shown on an Ordnance Survey town map from 1860, but not on the earlier 1833 Ordnance Survey map.

The farmhouse has a pitched roof covered with artificial slate, with plain overhanging eaves supporting modern plastic rainwater goods. Yellow brick chimneys with projecting brick bands are present on each gable. The main elevation, which faces south, has walls covered in cement render and painted. There are three openings on each floor. The central opening on the ground floor is the main entrance, and it is abutted by a modern, flat-roofed timber porch that is considered to have no architectural interest. All other openings contain modern 6/6 stained timber casement windows set in original openings, with painted granite cills. The left and right gables are blank. The rear elevation slopes downwards, revealing a basement. A two-storey return is located centrally at the rear, with a door on the ground floor to the left. All windows on the rear elevation are modern casements. A rendered dwarf wall topped with a cast concrete balustrade encloses a small front garden. The rear yard contains several outbuildings constructed of rubble stone with pitched natural slate roofs.

A 1970 slide shows the building with more of its original features, including 6/6 timber sliding sash windows, a shallow rendered masonry entrance porch with a plain cornice, a four-panelled timber entrance door with a rectangular transom above it, and iron railings on a rendered plinth with a matching gate. The porch also had a rectangular fanlight above the door and small windows on either side. According to a 1970 survey, the farmhouse originally had painted quoins.