Lisdrum House, Chequer Hill, Armagh Road, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6DV

Lisdrum House is a two-storey house set on an exposed hillside on the west side of Armagh Road, Newry. It is recorded rather than formally listed.

The main building has a pitched natural slate roof with modern timber fascia, modern hips and ridges, and modern vents set into the slating. A front central bay features a raised pyramidal roof. Rainwater goods are semicircular painted metal. The gables have no bargeboards and are finished with modern dry verge details. Three smooth cement render chimneys with cream-coloured decorative octagonal yellow terracotta pots are positioned—one to each gable and one on the party wall between the left and central bays.

The east elevation (façade) is unpainted wet-dashed cement with a raised chamfered base course and smooth render dressings. The central bay advances slightly and rises higher than the bays to its left and right. The main entrance is housed in a porch that abuts the right side of the central bay and the left side of the right bay, with a flat leaded roof. A modern ramp and steps lead to a four-panelled timber door with beaded muntin and metal kick plate. The porch façade contains a nine-paned fixed timber window.

The windows throughout have unpainted granite cills and horns except where noted otherwise. To the right of the porch are two 1/1 sliding sashes. Two steps lead from the central bay to a pair of modern French windows with sidelights and transoms. The ground floor left bay has a tripartite window with a 2/2 sliding sash flanked by 1/1 sashes. The first floor of the right bay features two equally spaced 1/1 sliding sash windows. The first floor of the central bay has a tall 6/6 sliding sash window with a radial semicircular head to the top sash and no horns. The first floor left bay contains a 2/1 sliding sash window with the glazing bar to the bottom sash now missing.

The south elevation is detailed as the façade with no openings to the ground floor and two 1/1 sliding sash windows at first floor. The right elevation, also detailed as the façade, is abutted on its right by a single-storey annex. The remaining wall is blank at ground floor, with two 2/2 sliding sashes positioned at both corners of the first floor.

The west elevation (rear) is abutted to the left and centre by a single-storey lean-to extension. The remaining wall is wet-dashed cement render, raised forward slightly at the left and right bays. A modern timber and glass door is set to the right side of the left bay. The first floor left bay has two 1/1 sliding sash windows, with one similar to the centre (with a small 1/1 to its immediate right) and one to the right bay.

The extension has a pitched natural slate roof and wet-dashed cement render walls with a smooth base course. Its front wall contains three three-paned metal-framed windows with concrete cills—two to the left bay and one to the right of the central bay. To the left of the central bay is a modern timber and glass door and a two-paned casement. Its left gable abuts the annex building, and its right gable is dashed.

The annex to the right gable has a pitched natural slate roof with ridge running west to east. The walls are lined with cement render except for the right elevation, which is uncoursed random rubble. The east gable is set back from the façade of the main block and contains a pair of modern timber French windows. The left elevation abuts the main block and extension, with exposed wall wet-dashed. The right elevation forms part of the boundary wall and features three openings at ground floor: the left and right are 1/1 sliding sashes with horns, while the central opening is the ghost of a blocked-up doorway infilled with random rubble. At first floor, aligned with the ground floor windows, are margin-paned 2/2 sliding sashes with no horns. The west gable is abutted by a single-storey outhouse in the rear yard; the exposed section is wet-dashed.

The front garden is enclosed to the left and right by old high random granite rubble walls with canted tops. The right wall (as viewed from the front garden) features a pair of tall crenellated rubble stone piers (wet-dashed to the street, with mock arrow-loops), with a wall between containing a single modern four-panelled door. A ramp sweeps up the grass bank from the street to meet this door. The front of the garden is enclosed by a lower, modern random granite rubble wall with flat top, inserted to create a separate site in the front portion of what was originally a larger garden. The original site must have encompassed the entire rectangle enclosed by Chequer Hill Road. The north boundary wall to the rear shows signs of once being part of a larger return. Vehicle access from the rear (west) gates is modern.