33 Greencastle Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4DE

33 Greencastle Road, Kilkeel

A two and a half storey, three-bay house in early 20th century Queen Anne revival style, facing south-east in mature gardens on the south side of Greencastle Road. A large two-stage return at the rear right forms an integral part of the composition when viewed from the south-west.

The main roof is pitched natural slate with swept overhanging eaves, sheeted soffit, and terracotta ridges and finials. Three decorative red brick chimneys are featured: one to the left side of the front pitch, set at right angles to the façade with four decorative flues; one on the right end of the ridge running parallel with the façade; and a third on the right pitch of the first stage of the rear return. A modern roof light sits at the rear right of the main roof. The front pitch of the main block contains a horizontal central dormer with a shallow segmental eared head and three side-hung casement windows. The left and right bays of the façade advance under hipped roofs that tie into the main roof and sweep out around side gables.

The front elevation is three bays wide with left and right bays advanced. An open veranda with a balcony roof advances between them on the central bay. Window openings throughout have shallow segmental brick heads and granite cills unless otherwise stated. The front door is a six-panelled painted timber door on the right side of the central bay. To the left is a three-paned casement window with a nine-paned transom. Three granite steps run the width of the veranda, which has a terracotta chequerboard tiled floor. The veranda walls are red brick as the façade, and the ceiling soffit is tongue-and-groove sheeted. Its roof is supported on six stop-end chamfered timber posts resting on chamfered granite plinths. The veranda roof forms a first-floor balcony with a modern wrought metal balustrade supporting a plain timber handrail. At first-floor centre, leading onto the balcony, is a four-panelled partially glazed timber door with a nine-paned transom. The left and right bays are identical, each with single window openings on each floor containing three side-hung casements with a nine-paned transom over each. The lower casements in each bay have been replaced with plastic, as have the rest at ground floor.

The left elevation wall matches the façade, with the rear return abutting to the left. It has two windows at ground floor: to the left are two casements, each with transoms as those to the façade; to the right is a canted bay with a shallow hipped leaded roof and brick base, containing two front casements and single side ones, with nine-paned transoms to the front ones and two twelve-paned transoms to those at the sides. Two first-floor windows align with those below, both two-pane casements with nine-paned transoms. An attic window to the centre of the gable contains three casements.

The right elevation is two bays wide. The left bay has a bay window at ground floor with a shallow hipped leaded roof and red brick base. There are four single casements to the front, each with a nine-paned transom; each cheek contains a single casement with a twelve-paned transom. To the immediate right of the bay window is a small eight-paned fixed window with a segmental head and timber cill. At the right bay of ground floor is a two-pane casement window with two nine-pane transoms above; an identical window appears above at first floor. The centre of the attic gable contains a segmental-headed opening with three casements.

The rear elevation is abutted to the right half by the two-stage return. The remaining wall to the left has a single tall 1/1-paned half-landing window with two nine-pane transoms above.

The return features a hipped roof with ridge the same height as the main roof. All return roof details match the main roof. Rainwater goods are concealed within the overhanging soffit with cast iron painted downpipes. A modern skylight sits on the left pitch of the first-stage roof. The right cheek (flush with the left elevation of the main block) has a single ground-floor window consisting of three casements, each with a nine-paned transom. The left cheek (facing the yard) has four windows: a single ground-floor window to the left of centre with a two-paned casement and twelve-paned transom; at half-landing level to the left, a similar window; at first-floor centre, a small single-paned casement with a larger pair of casements to its right. The end wall of the return is blank and abutted at ground floor by the single-storey stage, which has a hipped natural slate roof as the main block. Its right cheek has three casements with no transoms set in a single opening; its end wall has a single modern top-hung transom. Its left cheek is enclosed by a yard wall with a modern lean-to corrugated plastic roof over.