North of 1-4 Main Street, Forkhill, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 9SQ

A much-altered symmetrical two-storey, three-bay house aligned NW-SE on the W side of Church Road. Pitched natural slate roof with tiled skews and a brick chimney to each gable. A timber eaves board supports ogee metal rainwater goods, with downpipe to left. Walls are wet-dashed with stucco stepped quoins. All windows are timber framed top-hung casements with cement cills (those to façade are painted). Principal elevation faces NE. All openings to façade are set in a narrow painted cement-rendered reveals. There is a modern panelled mahogany door to centre with narrow transom over. To left and right is a window. Aligned above ground floor openings are three windows. Left gable is abutted by a lower single-storey outbuilding (see later). Exposed section has a window to left. Rear elevation could not be accessed. Right gable is abutted by a single-storey, lean-to garage. Exposed section has a window set to right. The garage has a monopitched corrugated asbestos cement roof. The NE face has a large pair of t+g sheeted doors. To either side, projecting forward slightly are square-in-section stop-end chamfered gate piers with sweeping pyramidal coping. Each is painted cement-rendered with whitewashed recessed panel to centre. Other elevations were not inspected. Outbuilding: Outbuilding to left gable is L-plan. Roof is pitched, tarred and felted, with timber bargeboards to the NE gable, which projects beyond the front of the house. SE gable is raised to form a decorative arched parapet with a 1901 datestone at head. Walls are whitewashed, part wet-dashed, part cement-rendered over rubble stone. There are crude painted quoins to NE gable, which is blank. NW elevation has a 1x3 fixed pane timber window. SE elevation has two boarded window openings with cement cills. To NE elevation, set at left, is a large pair of t+g sheeted doors flanked by narrow timber pilasters (that to right is partly missing) supporting a full-length timber fascia. To right of doors is a large boarded window with no cill. SE gable has a narrow painted cement-rendered platband at eaves level and a 2/2 fixed pane window in a painted rendered reveal at left. Rear not inspected.