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

33 Greencastle Road, Kilkeel

A large and attractive two and a half storey house in early 20th century Queen Anne revival style, built between 1900 and 1919. The house sits on the south side of Greencastle Road, facing south east, set within mature gardens. Known as 'Hill Crest' by 1919, the property is not shown on the 1901 Ordnance Survey map. It served as a billet for American officers during the Second World War.

The house comprises three bays with a substantial two-stage return to the rear right, which forms an integral part of the composition when viewed from the south west. The pitched natural slate roof features swept overhanging eaves with sheeted soffit, terracotta ridges and finials. Three decorative red brick chimneys are present: one to the left of the front pitch with four flues set at right angles to the façade, one on the right end of the ridge running parallel to the façade, and a third on the right pitch of the first stage rear return. A modern roof light sits at the rear right of the main roof.

The front elevation is dominated by an open veranda with balcony roof at ground floor level, with the left and right bays advancing under hipped roofs that sweep around side gables. The front pitch contains a horizontal central dormer with a shallow segmental eared head and three side-hung casement windows. The front door is a six-panelled painted timber door positioned to the right of the central bay, with a three-paned casement window (each pane with a nine-paned transom) to the left. Three granite steps run the width of the veranda, which has a terracotta chequerboard tiled floor. The veranda walls are red brick, matching the façade, with a tongued and grooved sheeted ceiling. The roof is supported on six stop-end chamfered timber posts resting on chamfered granite plinths. The veranda roof forms a first floor balcony with modern wrought metal balustrade and 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 windows on both floors containing three side-hung casements with nine-paned transoms. Ground floor casements in these bays and elsewhere have been replaced with plastic units.

All window openings feature shallow segmental brick heads and granite cills unless otherwise stated. The left elevation matches the façade wall and is abutted by the rear return. It has two ground floor windows: to the left, two casements each with transoms as found on the façade; to the right, a canted bay with a shallow hipped leaded roof and brick base containing two front casements and single side casements, with the front lights having nine-paned transoms and the side lights each having two twelve-paned transoms. Two first floor windows align with those below, both comprising 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 contains a ground floor bay window with shallow hipped leaded roof and red brick base, featuring four single casements to the front each with a nine-paned transom, with each cheek containing a single casement and a twelve-paned transom. Immediately to the right is a small eight-paned fixed window with a segmental head and timber cill. The right bay has a two-pane casement window with two nine-pane transoms at ground floor, and an identical window above at first floor level. A segmental headed opening at the centre of the attic gable contains three casements. The rear elevation to the left has a single tall one-over-one paned half-landing window with two nine-pane transoms above, the remainder being abutted by the two-stage return.

The return has a hipped roof with ridge at the same height as the main roof, featuring all the same roof details. Rainwater goods are concealed within the overhanging soffit with cast iron painted down pipes. 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, contains a single ground floor window of three casements each with a nine-paned transom. The left cheek, facing the yard, has four windows: a two-paned casement with a twelve-paned transom over at left of ground floor level; a similar window at half-landing level to the left; a small single-paned casement window at first floor centre; and a larger pair of casements to its right. The end wall of the return is blank at ground floor and abutted by a single-storey stage with a hipped natural slate roof matching the main block. The right cheek of this stage has three casements with no transoms set within a single opening, and its end wall contains a single modern top-hung transom. The left cheek is enclosed by a yard wall with a modern lean-to corrugated plastic roof.