Springfield Villa, 145 Moyad Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5LF

Springfield Villa is a symmetrical two-storey country villa with a semi-basement, set facing south in a small landscaped demesne near Kilkeel. It is constructed of rendered rubble granite with a chamfered stugged ashlar granite plinth on the front elevation and east gable.

The building is three bays wide and has a pitched and gabled natural slate roof with blue clay ridge tiles, boxed overhanging eaves and verges. The most distinctive architectural feature is the series of highly decorative and very slender pierced bargeboards incorporating various Gothic motifs entwined in flowing curvilinear tracery. These appear over eaves gables on the first floor windows of the main façade, across the main gables, and in three additional gablets on the return. Each bargeboard design is varied but similar in character.

Two chimneys are set on the internal cross walls. Each has a simple unified base above which three flue shafts are individually expressed with simply corbelled caps and modern red chimney pots. The shafts are smooth rendered but may originally have been exposed brickwork.

The principal elevation features a projecting flat-roofed porch at the centre of the ground floor. The porch roof has a Regency-styled cast iron balustrade incorporating acanthus details, though panels of later design have been added to the sides, suggesting the original porch may have been shallower and possibly open. The present porch has paired half-glazed margin pattern doors with 2x5 pane fixed lights in the cheeks. To either side of the porch at ground floor are margined 6/6 sliding sashes with granite cills. Above the porch, the central opening at first floor comprises a pair of margin-paned French doors with fixed lights over, flanked by margined 6/6 sliding sashes.

The west gable contains a single central window to each floor, both margined 6/6 sliding sashes.

The rear return abuts the back of the house to left and centre. Its right wall, which faces the yard, is wet dashed. To the left of this wall is a painted sheeted timber door into a basement store with a window and gablet above at first floor level. The rear return itself has a pitched natural slate roof and a chimney matching the main chimneys. Its right cheek has a glazed framed sheeted painted timber door to the ground floor and an 8/8 sliding sash window to the kitchen. To the right are marks in the render suggesting a second doorway has been infilled. Adjacent to the join with the main house is a small 1/1 sash window lighting a store below the stairs, with a large margin-paned 6/6 window above at half-landing level. At first floor are two 6/6 sliding sashes—one over the kitchen door and one over the kitchen window—with a similar window in the attic set in a gablet in line with the kitchen door. The rear gable has a 6/3 sliding sash window in the attic and a decorated bargeboard.

The left cheek of the return, set back from the right gable of the main house by approximately 2 metres, has three evenly spaced 6/6 sliding sash windows at ground floor and similar windows above at first floor, though the leftmost is 6/2 with its bottom sash obscured glass, presumably modified for a bathroom. One 6/6 attic window sits under a gablet in line with the central windows.

The east gable of the main block contains a single 6/6 window with vertical margins to each floor. In the 2-metre section of the rear wall of the main block are a small barred basement window and a 6/6 sliding sash window at ground floor.

Guttering and downpipes are plastic.

Three outbuildings stand within the yard. At the northwest corner is a screen wall with a sheeted pedestrian door closing off the yard, linking with a two-storey coach house orientated north to south bearing a date stone of 1845. At the back of the yard is a two-storey stable block with feed loft over, featuring a hipped natural slate roof with a large timber-framed vent on the ridge which may originally have housed a bell. There is no sign of there ever having been gutters. The walls are harled and whitewashed with corbelled eaves. The south face has a pair of doorways set centrally, now knocked into one, flanked by two window vents—the left one original with square vertical timber bars set on the diagonal, the right with bars removed and glass inserted. At first floor is a central loading door, and circular vents appear in each end wall. Behind this building is another two-storey range with a pitched natural slate roof and coursed squared granite rubble walls in two stages, bearing the date 1887 over the door in the east gable.

The yard has been concreted over.