14 Seavers Road, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 6LD

This is a vernacular farmhouse with associated outbuildings, situated on a pleasant site off Seavers Road in the townland of Ballymacdermot, near Newry. The building is dated between 1820 and 1839.

The two-storey, two-bay farmhouse is aligned northeast/southwest and accessed via a lane lined with rubble stone. It has a pitched roof covered in artificial slate, with a rendered chimney stack on each gable. Rainwater goods are made of metal. The walls are cement-rendered over random rubble, with stepped quoins visible only on the front elevation. The main elevation faces southeast. A porch with a pitched artificial slate roof and smooth rendered walls is positioned to the right of centre. The porch’s right side contains a door clad in tongue-and-groove (t+g) sheeting, while its front has a fixed 4/4 timber sliding sash window with a concrete cill and its left side is blank. Single 4/4 exposed box sliding sash windows with concrete cills are located in each bay to both floors. The left and right gables are identical, each abutted by a lower, single-storey outbuilding; the exposed sections of these outbuildings are blank. The outbuildings have pitched roofs, lime-rendered rubble stone walls, and tongue-and-groove sheeted doors. The outbuilding to the left has a felt roof in poor condition, while the outbuilding to the right has a corrugated metal roof and is abutted by a smaller, similarly detailed outbuilding on its right gable. The rear elevation is smooth rendered and features a 4/4 sliding sash window in each bay, on each floor. A small garden and a one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding, which is of no particular interest, are situated to the front.

Historical records show a building on this site on Ordnance Survey maps from 1835. In 1835, its rateable valuation was below £5, indicating a single-storey structure, which contrasts with the two-storey building seen today. The valuation remained at £1 between 1862 and the 1920s. This suggests the building was raised to two storeys sometime before or after these dates, most likely after the 1920s, possibly in the 1930s. The low valuation is consistent with other single-storey buildings in the surrounding area.