Dwelling to north of 19 Seafin Road, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 8LA

This is a long, attractive vernacular dwelling located north of 19 Seafin Road, within the Slieve Gullion Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The house, aligned north-south and parallel to the east side of Seafin Road, was likely constructed between 1861 and 1906-07, appearing on the 1906-07 Ordnance Survey map. Its valuation records indicate minimal changes since 1862, suggesting a construction date in the early 1860s.

The single-storey, three-bay dwelling has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with a tiled skew to the left gable. The exterior walls are lime rendered random rubble, with a raised eaves course, but no visible gutters. Two lime rendered chimneys stand out – one at the left gable and another just to the right of the centre. The primary, west-facing elevation includes a large, square-section porch with a pyramidal natural slate roof and advanced eaves. The front of the porch has a window opening now infilled with rubble, while the left cheek is blank and the right cheek features a plywood-sheeted door with a timber lintel, alongside a granite water trough. To the left of the porch are two window openings, and to the right, one. The second window from the left retains vestiges of a 6/3 exposed-box sash window, and all windows have granite cills. A window opening with a granite cill is located on the left gable, at attic floor level. The rear elevation is built into a bank and contains three small, cill-less windows, one in each bay, with the right bay lacking a cill. The right gable is abutted by a ruinous, one-and-a-half-story outbuilding, sharing the same roofline as the main house; the roof is gone, and only walls remain. The outbuilding’s front face has two door openings.

The property is situated on an elevated, maturely planted site. The road frontage is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall, with access provided by a modern gate supported on circular gate pillars where remnants of conical copings remain.