Farm Complex, 67 Ballinran Rd, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4JA

Farm Complex at Ballinran Road, Kilkeel

A farmhouse and complex of outbuildings arranged around three sides of a yard, representing the evolution of a working farm over time.

The farmhouse is a two-storey, four-bay house facing south, with the leftmost bay a later addition. It has a pitched roof covered in artificial slates and three cement-rendered chimneys—one to each gable and a third positioned between the first and second bay. Plastic gutters run around the eaves. The walls are constructed of granite rubble, rendered with lined cement. The main south elevation was originally symmetrical with a central painted timber door featuring three glazed panes above and panelled below. All windows are modern timber top-hung designs: the ground floor has two windows to the left of the front door and one to the right (one per bay), while the first floor has four windows, each aligned with the opening below. All windowsills are granite. The left gable is plain. The right gable features a 1/1 top-hung timber window at ground floor and a small fixed pane at first floor level. At the rear, a one-storey lean-to kitchen extension spans bays 1 to 3, with a skylit slated roof, a small chimney at the left, and rendered granite walls. This extension has two 2/2 sliding sash windows to the left of a modern timber door, with a manually-operated cowtail water pump positioned between the windows. The right bay (the later addition) has a margin-paned sliding sash window to each floor. All sills here are also granite.

Outbuilding 1, positioned to the left as one enters the yard, is a two-storey barn with a gabled natural slate roof and painted random rubble walls. A single-storey return structure abuts the left side of the yard-facing façade, and a slated monopitched shed adjoins the right gable. The main block has two tongue-and-groove sheeted doors at ground floor, with stone steps rising to a similar door at first floor on the right. This first-floor door has a small dormer gable above it, and a dormer window sits above the left ground-floor door, fitted with a modern timber insert. The rear elevation has a lean-to shed abutting the right side. A tongue-and-groove door stands at the left of the rear elevation, with a window opening now infilled. A skylight pierces the roof on this elevation.

Outbuilding 2, situated opposite the rear of the dwelling, is a single-storey, one-bay shed with a pitched natural slate roof and painted random rubble walls. The yard-facing façade has an enlarged modern timber window, with a tongue-and-groove boarded door to its right.

Outbuilding 3 is a two-storey barn with a large single-storey shed attached to its left gable. Both roofs are pitched with natural slates, and the walls are painted random rubble. A single tongue-and-groove door stands at the right, with a 2x2 window to its left. To the left again is a sheeted metal door, and at the far left, stone stairs rise over a tongue-and-groove door to first-floor level. The first floor has a tongue-and-groove boarded door beneath a dormer gable, with two 2x2 windows to the right. The shed on the left gable has tongue-and-groove doors at both left and right ends, with a small window between. A PVC window occupies the left gable, with pigeon roosts in the apex and a lean-to corrugated metal-roofed shed below. At the rear, lean-tos abut both the two-storey and one-storey sections: the lean-to to the two-storey section is of rendered concrete blockwork with a corrugated metal roof, while that to the one-storey section is entirely of corrugated metal.

Outbuilding 4, positioned beside and in line with the house, is a one-storey garage with a pitched asbestos-tiled roof and rendered walls. Two large metal sliding doors face the front, with a fixed window at the right gable and another similar window at the rear.

The property is bounded by good stone walls, with flat-iron carriage and pedestrian gates opening to the road.