Tower Hill, 29 Turmore Road, Donaghmore, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1PJ

Tower Hill is a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse dating from the mid-19th century, situated on mature ground north of Turmore Road near Donaghmore in County Down. The building is accessed via a tree-lined avenue from the road.

The main house has a hipped natural slate roof aligned northeast to southwest, with overhanging boxed eaves carrying modern aluminium rainwater goods. Modern red brick chimneys are positioned to either side of the central bay, with a further similar chimney on an advanced chimneybreast to the right gable. The rear pitch has a wall-head chimney on its right side.

The principal southeast-facing elevation is composed of advanced left and right bays flanking a narrower recessed central bay. The walls are rendered in modern pebble dash with painted V-channelled quoins either side of the outer bays, and a smooth rendered and painted basecourse. The left and right bays are identical in treatment, each containing modern uPVC casement windows with granite cills to both floors, with those on the first floor reduced in height and width.

The central bay features 'crazy paving' stone cladding and is fronted by a single-storey porch with stucco walls that are band rusticated with channelled quoins over the doorway. The porch roof is concealed behind a moulded entablature with plain frieze and shallow pediment framed by plain blocks supporting painted concrete eagles. The original 19th-century door is a 9-panelled design with a 3x3 paned transom glazed in blue and green glass, fitted with brass furniture and approached by four dressed granite steps from the driveway. Flanking the doorcase are narrow 1/1 uPVC windows with granite cills, and the central bay's first-floor window matches those of the outer bays. The left gable contains a uPVC window to each floor.

The rear elevation has been substantially altered. The left bay has non-aligned windows to each floor, while the right bay is blank. The central bay is abutted on its right by a narrow return detailed as the house but under a cat-slide of the main roof. This return has a modern casement window with concrete cill to its ground floor and a small 2/2 sash window with sandstone cill to the first floor on its rear face. A small modern single-storey extension abuts the right gable, detailed as the house with pitched artificial slate roof and pebble dashed walls. This extension has 2/2 sliding sash windows with sandstone cills at first-floor level to its front gable and left cheek, and a door to its right cheek.

At the road entrance stands a small derelict single-storey, two-bay gate lodge with direct entry in plan. It retains the remains of overhanging boxed eaves and a single red brick chimneystack, though its modern corrugated metal roof has replaced the original covering. The harled walls contain a central door flanked by window openings with sandstone cills. Few original features remain, though some scalloped bargeboards survive on the right gable.

To the rear of the main house, the farmyard is enclosed to the southwest by a high rubble stone wall, embattled in design with a slightly taller archway dressed with a sandstone platband and brick voussoirs. On the northwest side of the rear yard stands a two-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof, random rubble stone walls, and a flight of external stairs. The remains of a small walled garden lie to the north of the house.