20 Newtown Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RJ

This is an attractive vernacular house, likely dating from the early 19th century (approximately 1800-1819). It is situated in a quiet cul-de-sac and was originally part of a small settlement, forming a visually pleasing group with its outbuilding, an adjoining building, and the property at number 26 Newtown Road.

The house is one of a pair of two-storey, two-bay dwellings aligned east-west along a lane to the east of Newtown Road. It has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with a modern red brick chimney set slightly right of centre. A brick skew is present on the left gable, and a metal-framed skylight is situated on the front roof slope. A slightly raised eaves course is visible, but there are no rainwater goods. The walls are lime-rendered and whitewashed over a random rubble core. The main elevation faces south. A windbreak porch with a monopitched natural slate roof is positioned at the left end, featuring a tongue-and-groove (t+g) sheeted entrance door, with blank cheeks on either side. To the right of the porch, each bay has a single window on each floor. These are 2/2 sashed windows with horns and painted stone cills. The first-floor windows are shorter in height and have timber cills, set directly below eaves level. The left gable is blank.

The rear elevation is largely abutted by a single-storey extension with whitewashed random rubble walls and a monopitched corrugated metal roof, lacking rainwater goods. Two windows are visible on the north face: a large modern casement window with a concrete cill on the left, and a smaller original 6/3 sliding sash window with a granite cill on the right. A plain tongue-and-groove door is recessed into the right cheek of the extension. The right gable is completely abutted by a slightly taller building, which has been significantly altered with enlarged window openings and a modern door.

A one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding, detailed with tongue-and-groove openings, is located in the rear yard. The yard is accessed via a loop-headed wrought iron gate supported on concrete block gate piers.

The property is shown on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map and subsequent editions.