22 Killeen School Road, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 8RX

A vernacular house with evolved plan form, set on the east side of Killeen School Road, Newry. The building comprises a one-and-a-half storey left bay and a two-storey right bay, aligned west to east. Both have pitched natural slate roofs with advanced granite eaves courses and no rainwater goods. The right bay features corbelled brick chimneys to each gable with yellow brick bands and tiled skews. These early 20th-century decorative brick chimney stacks are a dominant feature. Walls are lime-rendered random rubble with a slightly advanced chamfered base course to all elevations.

The principal elevation faces north. The entrance porch projects from the left end of the right bay, lined in cement render with a flat roof concealed behind a decorative swept parapet. The door opening, which appears to have had sidelights, no longer retains its door. A window opening stands to the porch's right. Both openings have window openings aligned above them on the first floor, retaining the remains of exposed box 1/1 sliding sashes with margin panes. The porch's right and left cheeks are blank. The left bay has two smaller ground floor window openings with the same sash detailing. The left gables of both bays are cement rendered; that to the right bay is blank, while the left bay has a central 2/2 sliding sash window to the upper level.

The rear elevation of the left bay is abutted at its right end by a later lean-to porch with a monopitched artificial slate roof and cement skews. The porch's front face has a rectangular window opening with a door opening to its left cheek and a small window opening to its right cheek, the latter retaining the remains of a metal top-hung casement. The left bay's rear elevation has two ground floor window openings detailed as the façade, and the right gable has a 2/2 sliding sash to the first floor left. A side-hung casement window divided by a central timber mullion lights the first floor on the rear elevation of the left bay.

The building sits in an open field with outbuildings to the rear. A small cement-rendered wall curves sharply at the left end to enclose a well incorporated into the farmyard wall.

Historical records show a building at this location on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map, though not in the same alignment as the present structure, which first appears on the 1861 edition. The house was valued at £1 in 1862 and maintained this valuation in subsequent revision books through the 1860s to 1920s, indicating a mid-19th-century date of construction, likely between 1840 and 1859.