11 Brogies Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8NW

This is an attractive vernacular cottage situated slightly removed from Brogies Road, set within a sheltered, sloping site. Built around 1860-1879, it retains much of its original internal fabric and, together with its small outbuilding, forms a picturesque group.

The cottage is a two-bay, single-storey building aligned east to west, sloping with the hillside to the east. It has a pitched corrugated metal roof with two cement-rendered chimneys, one centrally placed and the other on the right gable. Cement skews are visible on each gable. Only the remains of a metal gutter above the doorway remain from the original rainwater goods. The walls are whitewashed and lime rendered, with the facade finished in wet dash and whitewash. The north-facing principal elevation features an entrance door with bead-moulded, tongue-and-groove sheeted panels. To the right of the entrance are two small, simple window openings without cills; the left window has a single fixed pane, and the right window is a 6/3 sliding sash. The left gable shows faint markings indicating a former, lower, narrower outbuilding – a portion of its wall remains to the left of the door. The rear elevation has a single fixed pane window opening in each bay. The right gable is blank.

A small concrete yard separates the cottage and a single-storey, single-bay outbuilding located at the east end of the yard. The outbuilding’s roof and walls are detailed in a similar manner to the main cottage. It has a modern timber sheeted door to the right of centre, with a single fixed pane window immediately to its left. All other faces are blank. The right gable of the outbuilding features a small rubble stone pigsty with an enclosing wall, topped with a corrugated monopitched roof and whitewashed, random rubble walls.

The cottage is set within a maturely planted boundary and is enclosed from the road by a modern stone wall.

It is uncertain whether the cottage appears on the 1835 or 1861 Ordnance Survey maps. The 1862 Valuation records suggest "some alterations are about being made on this leased land," which may indicate the house was built around that time.