38 Dunnaval Road, Dunnaval, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4HW

Two storey / two bay house and former post office on intersection of Dunnaval Road and Ballynahattan Road. Pitched natural slate roof with dashed brick verges and rendered coped chimney to each gable. That to left has (?asbestos-cement) slate smokestacks and right has terracotta pots. Half-round plastic rainwater goods, part missing. Walls are painted wet-dash with projecting eaves and a painted granite wheel stone to right corner (on road junction). Façade, which faces north, is slightly asymmetrical, with right bay wider than left one. Main entrance is slightly to right of centre and contains a framed and sheeted door with an additional hinged half leaf (to allow door to fold neatly into an internal vestibule). Over is a mouth-organ transom (now boarded up). To left and right at ground floor are 6/6 exposed box sliding sashes with painted granite cills. To first floor are three similar windows in line with ground floor openings. All are now boarded up. Left and right gables are blank. Rear elevation is abutted along its full length by a one-storey annexe. Its natural slate roof is tarred and abuts eaves of main block. Its walls are smooth lined render and it has a 1/1 sliding sash window to either end (both boarded up) and a t+g sheeted painted timber door towards right end. Blank cheeks. At front right is a gravelled area, with an EIIR post-box on a cast-iron post. To left side is a small overgrown garden. To rear is a small yard with derelict outbuilding. It is partially enclosed by the gable of an abutting barn, to the right of which is a pedestrian gate and flanking railings, all of wrought-iron. At right, along Ballynahattan Road, is a vehicle entrance to rear. Comprises a corrugated metal gate between two dashed square piers.