22 Cottage Road, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 8RS

22 Cottage Road is a one and a half storey vernacular house with lower outbuildings abutting each gable, built between 1840 and 1859. The building is aligned north-west to south-east perpendicular to Cottage Road.

The house comprises two bays with a pitched natural slate roof and two chimneys, one at each gable. The chimney to the left is cement-rendered; that to the right is brick. An eaves course projects slightly. The walls are lime-rendered random rubble with a tarred base course and no rainwater goods. All external doors are t-and-g sheeted.

The principal north-east elevation has a projecting porch set to the right end of the left bay, with a window to its left. The porch features a flat cement-coped roof with lined cement-rendered walls and an advanced platband running around it above door level. The entrance door has blank cheeks to its right and left. The right bay contains a single ground floor window. Both bays have small square windows to the upper floor. All ground floor windows are metal-framed casements with cement-rendered, stop-end chamfered lugged architrave and concrete cills. Upper floor windows are moulded timber fixed pane windows with no cills.

The left gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding, part of which has been incorporated into the house. Its exposed section is cement-rendered and blank. The rear elevation is cement-rendered with remains of whitewash, containing one window to each bay at ground floor, detailed as those to the façade. The right gable is similarly abutted by a lower outbuilding with an exposed, blank, cement-rendered section.

The left outbuilding is single storey and divided into two structural bays: the left is a small shed, the right is one and a half storey. Both have pitched artificial slate roofs with cement skews to exposed gables. Walls are as the main house. The left outbuilding has a door leading to the shed and a window (now incorporated into the house). Its rear elevation shows a window to the house and a smaller 1/1 fixed pane window in plain reveal to the shed. The left gable is unrendered. The right gable is abutted by the house.

The right outbuilding has a central door to the front elevation and a loading door to the upper level accessed by seven external granite steps running up the gable wall. Its rear elevation is blank.

Historical records show a building on this site in the 1835 Ordnance Survey map, noted as having no valuation and therefore presumed to be a small single storey structure. By the 1862 Second Valuation, it was valued at £1 10s 0d, and this valuation remained constant thereafter. The constancy of rateable valuation implies the building had assumed its present two-storey form by 1862.