33 Clontigora Hill, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RU

33 Clontigora Hill, Newry, is a vernacular country house of mid-19th century date, built between 1840 and 1859. It is pleasantly situated on a tight bend on Clontigora Hill, set below road level with its rear elevation facing the road. The building retains its original plan and many interior features, making it a good example of this type of dwelling.

The house is a symmetrical two-storey, two-bay structure aligned east-west. The left bay is wider and contains the entrance. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with tiled verges and has a brick chimney to each gable. A timber eaves board supports half-round metal rainwater goods. The principal façade, facing north, is whitewashed lime-rendered with a contrasting base course. All other elevations are lined and rendered. The rear elevation has stepped quoins running the full height of the left side and the top half only of the right side.

The entrance is a projecting porch with a flat tarred roof and modern glazed timber door set to the centre of the principal elevation, with blank cheeks to either side. On either side of the porch is a window. The first floor contains three equally spaced windows. All windows are 2/2 sliding sashes with horns except the ground floor left window, which is a top-hung timber casement. All have painted granite cills. The left and right gables are blank. The rear elevation has a small 2/2 window to each floor of each bay, positioned at the gable sides.

The house has three lime-rendered rubble stone outbuildings. The first, to the west of the front yard, has a pitched corrugated metal roof, with a large opening and a tongue-and-groove sheeted door at right on the yard-facing elevation; gables and rear are blank. The second, to the east, has a pitched natural slate roof, with a plain timber door to the left of centre and a tongue-and-groove sheeted door at right on the yard-facing elevation. The left gable has two small ventilation openings, and the rear elevation has two infilled windows. The third building is located to the rear, separated from the house by the road, and has a pitched natural slate roof with a door to the centre of each elevation. A lower lean-to of similar detail, with a door to the east elevation, abuts its right gable.

The site is enclosed from the road by a lime-rendered rubble stone wall and accessed by a metal gate supported on cylindrical lime-rendered piers with tarred conical caps. A path leads from the front of the house to a wooded garden enclosed by a rubble stone wall with a small loop-headed wrought-iron gate at the centre. A larger wrought-iron gate provides access to the rear of the western outbuilding.

A building is recorded on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map for this location, though with no valuation, suggesting a one-storey structure at that date. The present house is of a style consistent with mid-19th century construction.

The listing extends to the house, outbuildings, and gates. The building is notable for its vernacular style, proportions, plan form, quality and survival of interior details, setting, and group value.