House on lane off beach, adj. to Duggan's Point, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LR

This is a ruinous, single-story, three-bay vernacular house situated remotely on the coastline, up a lane near Duggan’s Point, north of Greencastle Point. Access is via a coastal lane leading from the end of Greencastle Pier Road. The house has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with smooth rendered brick to the gables and on either side of the central bays. A cast iron skylight sits at the centre of the front roof pitch, and rainwater goods are missing. The walls are harled and originally washed with a pink pigment, but lack an eaves course. The main facade faces north and features concrete window cills. A porch abuts the central bay, with a pitched natural slate roof and walls matching the facade; it has a sliding sash window (with an exposed box) but the sashes are gone. The right side of the house is blank, while the left side has a doorway lacking panels. There are two windows in the left bay, one to the left of the porch in the central bay, and one in the right bay; all are vertically divided sashes, with most sashes missing. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation is harled like the front. The rear left bay has two window openings, the central bay a door with a window, and the right bay a tongue-and-groove sheeted door. The right gable has a small window at ground floor level, and a similar window on either side in the gable above. To the rear left and right are derelict, single-story outhouses of little interest, although one contains the remains of a belt-driven threshing machine. The lane leading to the house forks to front and rear. A belt of Scots pines shelters a small orchard in front of the house, across the lane. The gateway is flanked by larches and retains some decorative planting. A small, overgrown garden at the front of the house has a cement edged path and flowerbed. A high stone wall runs along the right boundary, with a doorway to an adjacent field and a stone slab bench.

The house appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey (OS) 6-inch map, but is absent from the 1835 valuation, suggesting it was a modest building. It was described as a one-story dwelling in the 1863 valuation and valued at 15 shillings. A note in the 1896 valuation revision book describes the house as being "down," implying it was very ruinous or undergoing reconstruction. The current detailing corresponds with construction around the turn of the 20th century.