12 Killeen School Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RX

12 Killeen School Road is a well-preserved farm complex and attractive grouping of vernacular buildings located on the east side of Killeen School Road in Clontygora. The main house appears to have retained most of its original features.

The principal building is a two-storey, two-bay vernacular house aligned west to east, with a later porch and miscellaneous outbuildings to the east side. All structures are enclosed to the road by a random rubble stone wall with field stone copings, terminated at the south end by a pair of square-section wet-dashed gate piers with pyramidal copings, supporting a wrought-iron rams-head gate.

The main house has a pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and three brick chimneys—one to each gable and one slightly left of centre. Timber eaves board supports half-round plastic rainwater goods with downpipe to the right end. All walls are smooth-rendered and painted with a contrasting chamfered base course, punctuated by two ventilation grilles to the right bay, with stepped quoins to the facade. The principal elevation faces south.

A large single-storey projecting porch, abutted to the left of centre, has a flat cement-coped roof. Its front face features a segmental-headed "mushroom-shaped" opening leading into a small open porch. To the centre is a glazed timber entrance door dating to around the 1940s with transom over. Each cheek of the porch has a modern top-hung timber casement window with painted concrete cill.

The left bay has a ground-floor window and one set to the right over the porch on the first floor. The right bay has two windows in line with each other on each floor. All windows are 2/2 exposed box sliding sash windows with horns and painted granite cills, set within smooth rendered architraves. Those on the first floor are diminished in height. Both left and right gables are abutted by lower outbuildings. Both have a window set to the rear end of the first floor—that to the left is a top-hung timber casement; that to the right has no cill. The rear elevation has a window to the ground floor of each bay, and the right bay has a window set to the first floor left.

The outbuilding to the left gable is single-storey, detailed as the house, with a pitched artificial slate roof. It has a large pair of tongued-and-grooved sheeted doors set to the left of the front (south) elevation. To their right are two window openings—that to the left is a top-hung timber casement and that to the right is a small 2/2 sliding sash as on the facade. Both have painted concrete cills. All other elevations are blank, with the right gable abutting the house.

The outbuilding to the right gable is two-storey with a pitched natural slate roof and half-round metal rainwater goods with downpipe to the right end. The walls are cement-dashed with two tongued-and-grooved sheeted doors to the south face. To the first floor centre is a tongued-and-grooved sheeted loading door. The left gable abuts the house. The rear elevation has a tongued-and-grooved sheeted loading door to the centre of the upper level, accessed by several granite blocks. The right gable is abutted by a small lime-rendered rubble-stone lean-to with a monopitched natural slate roof. The exposed section is cement rendered with a single fixed metal lattice window to the apex. The lean-to has a door opening to the south elevation, a window opening to the right cheek (infilled with rubble), and a blank rear.

The domestic front yard is enclosed by a number of outbuildings to the east: a boiler house, pigsty, and earth closet; a garage and utility block to the south; and two sheds to the west.

The boiler house has a monopitched natural slate roof with brick chimney to the left end. Walls are wet-dashed with exposed rubble stone to the rear (east) face. Set to the right of the yard (west) face is a tongued-and-grooved door with small window opening to its right. The left gable and rear face are blank. The right gable is abutted by the pigsty and water closet.

The pigsty has a monopitched natural slate roof continuous with that of the boiler house and earth closet. The front and rear walls are blank and flush with the boiler house. The pen is accessed by a wrought-iron gate on its east face, with a door opening on its north face. Its left gable is abutted by a narrower water closet.

The water closet has a monopitched natural slate roof continuous with that of the boiler house and pigsty. It features a small fixed window to its left gable and a rubble stone windbreak wall. The closet has a tiled floor and timber boxed toilet seat.

Directly opposite this small group of outbuildings is a pair of concrete blockwork outbuildings creating a narrow sheltered yard.

The utility block is single-storey, detailed as the other farm buildings, with a tongued-and-grooved door set to the right of centre. Its left gable abuts the pigsty. The rear elevation and right gable are blank.

To the right of the garage is a random rubble wall with a stone stile, enclosing a small garden and accessed by a wrought-iron gate hung on wet-dashed cylindrical piers.

To the west of the site are two single-storey sheds with gables to the road. Walls are cement-dashed. The right shed has a pitched natural slate roof and a tongued-and-grooved door to the centre of each elevation. Set to the right end of its north face are four granite steps abutting the boundary wall with the road. Each gable is blank. The rear (south) face is abutted at the left end by the second outbuilding. It has a monopitched natural slate roof. The yard (east) facing elevation has a tongued-and-grooved sheeted door to centre, with all other elevations blank.

Although a building is shown on the 1835 and 1861 Ordnance Survey maps, it is not aligned to the same position as the present one, which first appears on the 1906–07 edition. Its valuation in 1862 was £4 and remains at this level in the Valuation revision books. This suggests that if a new house was erected after 1862, it had the same valuation as the old one. Alternatively it may have been erected between the time of the second edition map survey and the second valuation—in the early 1860s.