Fintimara, Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3RT

Fintimara is a large, high-quality stucco house of the mid to late 19th century, located on an elevated site with mature grounds on the north side of Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint. The building faces south across a sea-facing setting and remains little altered from its period.

The house is roughly square in plan with its principal elevation facing south and the front entrance on the west elevation. It is roofed with natural slate in a U-shaped hipped form with a central valley draining north. The rendered and painted walls feature a chamfered basecourse. The ground floor is band-rusticated with lined quoins over openings, a moulded cill course, and between ground and first floors runs a frieze course and cornice (which serves as the first floor cill course). The eaves are finished with a moulded stucco cornice incorporating ogee rainwater goods.

Tall decorative rendered and painted chimneys rise from the ridge. The first chimney comprises four stacks, situated on the ridge between the central and left bays of the west elevation; a similar four-stack chimney rises between the left and central bays on the east elevation. A three-stack chimney rises from the ridge between the bays on the south elevation, and a slender chimney rises from the wall-head at the left side of the rear (north) pitch.

The front entrance is situated on the east elevation, which is three bays wide, with the central bay being narrower than the others. The left bay and ground floor of the central bay advance forward slightly, with a concealed flat roof forming an entrance porch. Three stone steps with chamfered flanking dwarf walls rise to a semicircular-headed opening with pole moulded reveal. The porch interior is finished with a colourful encaustic tiled floor and painted plastered walls. The four-panelled front door features etched glazing and matching sidelights flanked by slender timber colonettes with Corinthian capitals; above is a semicircular-headed etched glass fanlight. All first floor windows throughout the house have run-moulded stucco architraves with eared bases. The left bays of the east elevation each have two 2/2 (horizontally divided) sash windows; the right bays each have two 1/1 sash windows. A single sash window sits above the porch at first floor.

The south elevation is two bays wide. The left, narrower bay contains a canted bay window with a half-hipped natural slate roof tied into the main roof and sharing its eaves; the bay window has three 1/1 sashes to each floor. The right bay has two windows to each floor. The east elevation is three bays wide; the left and right bays each have two windows (left ones are 1/1 sashes, right ones are 2/2 sashes), while the central bay features a canted bay window detailed as that on the south elevation.

The north (rear) elevation is rendered and painted. A single-storey return abuts its ground floor left side. At first floor, to the left of centre, is a large semicircular-headed landing window with three window openings: a central light with two paned margins flanked by narrow 1/1 sashes, and single 2/2 (horizontally) divided sashes to its left and right. A similar very narrow window sits to the extreme left; the extreme right is blank. The return has a concealed roof behind a stucco parapet and a tall rendered and coped chimney. Its east-facing wall is rendered and painted. At ground floor on the left side is a four-panelled door with two round-headed glazed top panels and decorative chamfered bottom panels, topped with a semicircular-headed fanlight. To the right is a bay window with a pair of 1/1 fixed windows at the centre and a 1/1 window to each cheek.

The front garden is enclosed to the south by a coursed granite rubble wall. Flanking walls to the entrance at the east end are in dressed granite with octagonal dressed granite gate piers carrying metal finials; these support a pair of decorative early 20th-century wrought iron gates. The gravel driveway is serpentine and runs to the west side of the house, where a modern garage block stands immediately to the northwest. The front garden is lawned and terraced with mature trees and hedges. To the northeast of the house is a terrace with modern glasshouses abutting a yellow brick wall serving a walled garden.

Historical records indicate the house was not present on the 1859 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map or in the 1861 Second Valuation, but appears in the Valuation revision books from 1864 onwards, suggesting an early 1860s construction date. It was first occupied by Richard George Guy and valued at £110. The house is captioned as 'Fintimara' on the 1901–02 Ordnance Survey map.