Tullymurry House, 4 Tullymurry Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1NG

Tullymurry House is a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay L-shaped house of mid-nineteenth-century date, probably built between 1840 and 1859. It stands in attractive mature grounds accessed by a long driveway from the west end of Tullymurry Road, with its principal elevation facing south and a secondary elevation facing east.

The building is constructed of harled rubble stone with pitched natural slate roofs, hipped at the west end with an advanced brick eaves course and half-round metal rainwater goods. The main roof is topped by two corbelled and rendered chimneys—one to the left gable and one on the ridge between the central and right bays. The return roof to the rear has a small attic skylight and carries two further chimneys, one on the north gable and one halfway along the ridge. The south and east elevations are heavily overgrown with trimmed ivy.

The principal south-facing elevation is the architectural focus. The central bay, which is half the width of the outer bays, contains the front entrance. Two low stone steps lead to a Georgian door with six raised and fielded panels and no letterbox. The doorcase is of painted timber with large moulded pilasters on square bases rising to moulded brackets that support a moulded entablature canopy with angled dentils. The canopy has a diminishing moulded roof terminating just below the central first-floor window. The left and right bays each contain two windows on ground and first floors, with a single window above the doorcase. All windows are 6/6 exposed box sliding sashes without horns, featuring painted stone cills and retaining their crown glass.

The east elevation is symmetrical, incorporating the east side of the rear return, with five windows (matching those of the principal façade) to each floor. The central and right end windows at first-floor level have been replaced with modern glass. The north gable of the rear return is smooth rendered with a small 2/2 sash window set to the right at ground floor. The remaining wall of this return is dashed with a 3/3 window at first-floor left and a three-paned window at first-floor right. At the corner where the rear return meets the main house, there is a small lean-to with a slate roof and segmental-headed 1/1 margin-paned sash window. The west-facing cheek of the return is almost completely abutted by a one-and-a-half-storey annex. The west gable has a window on each floor, with two small 4/2 sash windows in the attic gable. The rear elevation of the main house is blank and constructed of exposed rubble stone.

The annex to the west has a pitched natural slate roof aligned west-east, with its east gable abutting the rear return. It is topped by a tall dashed chimney roughly at the centre of its ridge. The walls are dashed with a smooth rendered base course. The north-facing elevation contains, from left to right, a tongue-and-groove sheeted door, a 2/2 fixed window with cill, another tongue-and-groove sheeted door, and a pair of full-height tongue-and-groove sheeted barn doors. The west gable is blank except for two small windows in the attic gable. The south elevation, which fronts a narrow passage and runs parallel to the rear wall of the main house, is not dashed and contains a doorway to the left and a modern glazed Georgian-style window at the right.

The house is set in mature gardens with beech trees and rhododendron bushes. Tullymurry Road, which forms the south-east boundary, is lined with beech trees and hedges. The main drive, accessed from the road by a pair of wrought iron gates with spearheads to the dog bars and main bars, is flanked by one-piece dressed granite piers with pyramidal heads.

Historically, a building is shown at this location on the 1834 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, though it does not appear to share the same alignment as the present house. The first Valuation map of around the same date is missing, making it impossible to determine whether the earlier building's dimensions matched those of the present house. The house appears in its present form and is captioned 'Tullymurry House' on the 1859 Ordnance Survey map. By the 1862 Valuation, it was occupied by Dr J Marshall. Its valuation increased from £20 to £23 in 1877 on account of new outbuildings being erected, but reduced to £15 in 1892 on account of its dilapidated state.

The listing encompasses the house, boundary wall, and gates to the road. The group value is enhanced by the intact farmyard with assorted iron gates.