49 Ballyvally Road, Mayobridge, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2RT

This is a small, two-bay vernacular farmhouse situated on the west side of Ballyvally Road, near Mayobridge, Newry. While it represents a typical example of its type, it lacks particularly special features. The house was likely constructed between 1840 and 1859, based on its appearance on an Ordnance Survey map from 1860, and was valued at £1.5s.0d around 1862 with no change in value through the following decades.

The house is single-storied with a pitched roof covered in natural slate. The gables feature cement-rendered chimneys with copings, and rendered skewbacks support metal rainwater goods. The walls are cement-dashed and painted, with a smooth rendered and painted base course. The main elevation faces east and contains a single 1/1 sliding sash window with horns, a smooth rendered and painted architrave, and a painted cill. All other windows are of a similar design. To the right of this window is a small entrance porch with a pitched natural slate roof and carved bargeboard. The porch walls are line-rendered and painted, with blank cheeks, and contain a modern timber door with a glazed upper section. The right bay of the main house has a simple sash window. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation is built into a slope and is abutted by a single-story return wing with a pitched natural slate roof and line-rendered, unpainted walls. The date ‘1958’ is inscribed in the render. A portion of the right side of the house is exposed, revealing a sash window and a small, high-level rectangular light. The return wing includes a top-hung metal casement window to the rear (west) and a similar window to the north cheek. The right gable is abutted by a low, single-story outbuilding with a corrugated metal roof and walls matching the main façade. A lean-to outbuilding, of no particular architectural interest, is attached to the right gable of this outbuilding. A triangular opening with a slate cill extends to the gable apex on the remaining part of the right gable of the main building.

The front yard is enclosed by rendered rubble stone cylindrical pillars with concrete caps, which support a pair of wrought-iron gates featuring twisted finials and dog-bars. A similar pair of pillars and gates define a small garden to the north of the house. A single-story outbuilding, with a corrugated metal roof and rendered rubble stone walls, sits at the south end of the yard, but is not considered to be of significant architectural interest.