60 Old Newry Road, Finnard, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5BG

An evolved vernacular farmhouse aligned north-south on the south side of Old Newry Road at Finnard, near Newry, County Down. The building is one and a half storeys and probably dates from the late 18th century.

The house has a pitched natural slate roof aligned north-south with four corbelled and cement-dashed chimneys — one to each gable and one to either side of the central bay. The walls are cement-dashed with smooth rendered finishes to corners and window openings. Half-round metal rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

The principal elevation faces west and comprises three bays. Each bay has a 1/1 exposed box sliding sash window with granite cill; the window to the right bay is blocked up. The central bay features an additional wind break porch to the left of the window. The porch has a pitched natural slate roof with decorative bargeboard incorporating a central drop finial. The porch door is of tongue-and-groove sheet construction with a narrow transom over, and its left and right cheeks are blank.

The right gable (south-facing) contains a 2/2 sash window to the attic, positioned to the left of centre. The rear (east) elevation has irregularly placed openings and is partly abutted at centre by a lean-to structure. The left bay has a 1/2 sliding sash window at ground floor centre and a 4/2 sash window at attic level to the left side. A cement-dashed plinth supporting a rainwater barrel abuts the ground floor. The central bay is almost completely abutted by the lean-to; its exposed left part contains a narrow 4/2 sash window at ground floor with a larger 4/2 sash window at attic level. The right bay has a large 2/2 sliding sash window at ground floor.

The rear lean-to has a mono-pitched natural slate roof and walls matching the house. Its left (south) cheek contains a tongue-and-groove sheeted door. The rear (east) face has a 2/2 sliding sash window and the right (north) cheek is blank. The left (north) gable has two 2/2 sash windows in the attic gable.

The house is set within a small garden to the front, enclosed to the road by a hedge. A ball-topped wrought-iron pedestrian gate provides access via a small path. A similar gate to the south side of the garden leads into the rear yard. The rear yard is enclosed to the south by a two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof. All openings are brick-dressed and have tongue-and-groove sheeted doors. The front (north) elevation has a central gable with a tongue-and-groove loading door flanked by a number of circular vented openings. A modern wrought-iron gate with eagle-topped piers accesses the road frontage.

The building appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map and is described in the 1836 Valuation book as measuring 54 feet 6 inches by 18 feet by 12 feet. Its value in the 1862 Valuation is £3 10s 0d, which remains unchanged thereafter. However, from 1886 the valuation is recorded as two separate parts, indicating that the building underwent sub-division at that point.