Church View, 6 Donaghmore Road, Aughintober, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1SE

Church View is a two-storey vernacular house situated prominently on the west side of Donaghmore Road at Aughintober, overlooking St Bartholomew's Church. Built in the early 19th century (circa 1800–1819), it is shown on the 1835 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map and was occupied by Jonathan Clarke according to the 1836 Valuation book, which recorded its dimensions as 42 feet by 23 feet 6 inches by 17 feet. The property retains historical significance as the "Old Four Mile House" noted on the 1859 map, indicating its position on what was once the main Belfast-to-Newry route.

The building is of three-bay plan with a pitched natural slate roof aligned northeast to southwest. Three rustic brick corbelled chimneys are positioned one to each gable and one between the central and right bays. Modern timber eaves boards carry plastic rainwater goods. The walls are finished in modern pebble-dash render with smooth cement-rendered basecourse, though historical records and survey photographs from 1977 indicate the house originally had a painted smooth render finish.

The principal southeast-facing elevation has the central bay as the narrowest and the right bay as the widest. A central porch projects at ground-floor level, featuring a hipped natural slate roof with decorative cusped pendant bargeboard with drop finial shamrock ends. The porch door comprises two elongated moulded panels with decorative cast-iron furniture, flanked by timber pilasters resting on granite blocks and surmounted by a margin-paned transom. Small margin-paned fixed lights flank either side of the porch. All windows on the principal elevation are 1/1 margin-paned sliding sashes with dressed granite cills: one above the porch, a single window to each floor of the left bay, and two windows to each floor of the right bay. The right (northeast) gable is blank. The rear (northwest) elevation has 2/2 vertically-divided sliding sashes to the left and central bays, except the central ground floor which is blank and the central first floor which has a 1/1 margin-paned sash. The right bay has two windows to each floor, with the ground-floor right window containing a pair of 2-by-3 paned timber casements.

The left (southwest) gable projects at ground-floor level, suggesting a later structural alteration, and is abutted on its left side by a lower two-storey return of narrower proportions. This return has a pitched natural slate roof and shares the dashed render finish and cill materials of the main block. Its southeast-facing elevation has a modern glazed door to the right with a plain cast-iron bootscraper, and a top-hung casement window with concrete cill to the left at ground floor. The first floor has a margin-paned sash window with concrete cill. The rear is blank at first-floor level but has a modern top-hung casement window at ground floor.

A lean-to structure is abutted to the southwest gable of the return, featuring a monopitched natural slate roof and cement-dashed walls. Its southeast-facing elevation has a tongue-and-groove door with a fixed single-pane window to its left. The southeast gable is sheeted in tongue-and-groove. The rear (northwest) wall is entirely abutted by a rendered yard wall with pitched coping.

The setting comprises a small front garden enclosed by a curving rendered stone wall with saddle coping, approached through a pair of roughly dressed granite gate piers with pyramidal caps supporting a wrought-iron gate with rounded top and spearhead finials. To the southwest of the house lies a small farmyard enclosed by parallel outbuildings. The rear outbuilding is two-storey with rubble stone harled walls and a pitched natural slate roof carrying plastic rainwater goods. All doors are tongue-and-groove sheeted and face forward; the right gable is abutted by a matching lean-to and carries a cast-iron pump marked with a rampant lion. The front outbuilding is single-storey with a blank road-facing elevation and tongue-and-groove sheeted doors facing the yard. Between the outbuildings and house, fronting the road, stands a pair of hoop-topped yard gates on rendered piers.

The Historical Monuments Buildings Branch first survey (April 1977) records the house as originally having smooth harled and whitened walls, confirming that the current pebble-dash render represents modern alteration. Internal modernisation has also been carried out.