15 Turnavall Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1LZ

15 Turnavall Road, Newry

A one and a half storey, three bay late 19th-century farmhouse set in a large mature garden on the south side of Turnavall Road. The pitched natural slate roof is aligned north-south with a crested terracotta ridge and overhanging eaves with decorative tails carrying half-round metal rainwater goods. End gables have king-post bargeboards resting on a central masonry corbel. Painted and rendered chimneys to each gable both have moulded copings. The front east-facing pitch has three gabled wall-head dormers, while the rear pitch ties into the rear return roof. Walls are lined, rendered and painted with a projecting chamfered basecourse. All cills are dressed granite and stooled.

The front elevation faces east. At ground floor centre is a timber porch with a hipped natural slate roof and chamfered timber frame, four panels wide and one panel deep. Each panel has a shouldered glazed light and a diagonally sheeted apron panel, with the central two panels serving as doors. A dressed granite threshold runs beneath. The left and right bays at ground floor are identical, each with a canted single-storey bay window under a natural slate roof. Each bay's three cheeks have a pair of side-hung casements with integrated square transoms. Three wall-head dormers on the façade, one to each bay, all have decorative Gothic Revival style bargeboards. The central dormer is slightly larger than the other two and contains three narrow 1/1 sash windows, whilst the left and right dormers each have a pair of similar windows. All have stop-end chamfered reveals and shared granite cills. The right gable has a pair of French windows with transom at ground floor right and three regularly spaced 1/1 sash windows at first floor, detailed as those to the front.

The rear elevation is abutted on the right by a lower two-storey return. The remaining narrow right section and the left section of the rear elevation are smooth rendered and painted, each with a 1/1 sash to first floor. To the centre of the rear elevation at the join with the return is a small single-storey bay, a full quadrant curve under a slated quarter conical roof with walls as the rear elevation and a pair of 2/2 sash windows to each floor.

The rear return is in two bays with a pitched natural slate roof aligned west-east. The west gable has tiled skews and two chimneys, one at the join with the main block and another halfway along its ridge. Its north pitch has a cast iron skylight. The north elevation is in two bays: the left bay has a modern uPVC conservatory abutting it, whilst the right bay has two infilled windows at ground floor and a blank first floor. The end west gable has a 2/2 sash window at first floor. The south elevation of the return has a modern 1/1 timber casement window. The right bay has two small wall-head dormers with plain bargeboards. Ground floor left bay has a glazed modern door and a modern 1/1 casement window, with a single similar window to the right bay at ground floor.

A small lean-to links the return to the ground floor right corner of the main house. Its south-facing front has a modern four-paned casement window.

The left south gable of the main house has two windows at ground floor left: the left one is a 1/1 sash with stop-end reveals and the right one is larger, containing two modern casements with a transom over and plain reveals. At first floor are three regularly spaced 1/1 sash windows all with chamfered reveals.

The large mature garden features a serpentine driveway from the road. A concave screen comprises a modern painted brick wall and a pair of 19th-century wrought iron gates with dog bars, diagonal braces and pinched hoop tops, hanging on slender reeded cast iron posts with bulbous caps. A modern driveway serves the farmyard, which contains mostly modern agricultural buildings. Immediately to the rear of the house is a traditional farmyard enclosed to the rear west side by a two-storey outbuilding with a hipped natural slate roof and rendered and whitewashed rubble stone walls.