30 Clontigora Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RR

This is a vernacular two-story house with a stable block, forming a pleasant grouping on the east side of Clontigora Road. Built between 1840 and 1859, the house is aligned east-west and has two bays with a near-symmetrical facade. The roof is pitched and covered in natural slate, with tile skews, overhanging eaves, and exposed rafter tails under plain timber eaves. Decorative bargeboards adorn the front and rear wall-head dormers. Brick chimneys rise from each gable, and there are no rainwater goods. The walls are whitewashed lime render over random rubble, with a tarred cement base course on the front facade, and machine brick dressings around the window and door openings. A large granite field-boulder marks the corner of the left-hand side. A projecting porch with a pitched natural slate roof, overhanging eaves, and decorative bargeboards sits slightly left of centre; it features a tongue-and-groove (t+g) sheeted door with granite base blocks, flanked by blank cheeks. Windows are set in each bay on both floors, with granite cills and the remains of 2/2 sliding sash windows, the first-floor windows being slightly narrower. The left gable is blank, displaying ghost marks of a former lower outbuilding. The rear elevation has a single window in each bay on each floor, now infilled with concrete blocks. The right gable has a single, infilled window at ground floor level.

The adjoining two-story stable block with a cart house faces west. Its roof is pitched and covered in natural slate. The walls are constructed of rubble stone. The ground floor features two tongue-and-groove sheeted doors with flat brick heads, a small window, and a large opening with a modern steel head. Above are a central tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door, flanked by boarded window openings. The rear elevation is built into a bank and features a large tongue-and-groove sheeted opening on the first floor. The right and left gables are blank. The interior of both buildings contains no noteworthy features.

The house appears on an Ordnance Survey map of 1835 as a small, one-story building. In 1862, its valuation was 15 shillings, with no subsequent changes. This suggests the house had reached its current two-story form by 1862.