6 Lisnagree Road, Poyntzpass, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 6FP

A two-storey farmhouse with pitched roof and two-storey rear return, sited on the south side of Lisnagree Road approximately 4 miles southwest of Poyntzpass. The house faces approximately east onto a farmyard, with an outbuilding to the southeast.

Exterior

The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and topped with black clay ridge tiles and concrete tiled verges. Three brick chimney stacks rise from the front block, with one additional stack on the gable of the rear return.

The walls are finished in painted roughcast and lime render. The front elevation is a four-bay façade with a porch positioned right of centre. Remnants of a former attached section remain on the left side, marked by a low timber-sheeted door. Single window openings flank the porch on the ground floor, with three more window openings on the first floor level; most are boarded over except the top left, which retains a 1/1 timber sliding sash window with single glazing. The porch itself has a pitched natural slate roof, a wide arched fanlight with naïvely coloured lights over the door opening, sidelights (now boarded), and scalloped timber fascia. The porch walls are lined and ruled rendered. A 1/1 margin-pane timber sliding sash window with arched head lights the south face of the porch; the north face carries a boarded-over door opening with an arched head.

The south gable elevation shows remnants of a former pitched roof return and includes a boarded-over door opening with timber and glazed door components. A single first-floor window opening, right of centre, is blocked. The south side of the return, partially visible at survey, contained a ground-floor door and first-floor window opening with the remains of a 1/1 timber sliding sash window showing an exposed sash box.

The west (rear) elevation displays a single ground-floor door and aligned first-floor window opening, both boarded over, on the rear façade of the front block. The two-storey return projects from the left of centre. Its rear (west) gable is blind, with a chimney topped by two decorative yellow clay pots at the apex. The gable face exposes random stone, chimney flue brickwork, and lime render. The rear façade of the front block on the right side of the return was partially visible at survey, revealing a 2/2 timber sliding sash window on the first floor and two partially glimpsed ground-floor door openings. The north elevation is blind, though the rear return contains two ground-floor window openings and a single first-floor window opening, all boarded over.

Rainwater goods consist of a cast iron gutter on the left side of the front elevation with remnants of additional cast iron guttering.

Setting and Boundaries

The house is set directly onto a grass verge on the roadside, with its north gable facing the road. A rubblestone boundary wall encloses the property, with a wrought iron pedestrian gate providing access to the porch. A cement-rendered pier with capping stone marks the right side of the yard entrance. Wrought iron gates and diagonal-set piers are positioned at the side, rear, and across the road.

To the south stands the remnants of a stone outbuilding. A barrel-vaulted hay shed clad in corrugated iron, with a lean-to section extending onto the grass verge and rubblestone walling with corrugated iron roof, occupies the east side. An attractively sited stone outbuilding with red-brick detailing and pitched natural slate roof stands on the southeast side of the yard, with its taller section facing north.