Curley House, 18 Curley Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1NU

Curley House is a symmetrical early-19th-century two-storey dwelling with attic storey, positioned on a rise on the north side of Curley Road. It is three bays wide with its principal elevation facing south toward the road.

The roof is pitched with natural slate laid in diminishing courses to the front pitch; the rear pitch uses smaller, thicker slates that appear older than the front ones. Both gable ends have rendered chimney stacks. Half-round plastic gutters run along projecting eaves.

The walls are painted and lined with smooth cement render over random rubble on the front; the rear elevation has unpainted wet dash render.

The principal south-facing elevation is symmetrically composed. At ground floor centre is a wide segmental-headed opening trimmed with modern brick, forming an open porch. The door proper is modern, comprising two varnished timber doors with aproned sidelights and transoms. According to the owner, this entrance was inserted approximately ten years ago, replacing a window, and the left and right bays formerly had small segmental-headed flanking windows, though these cannot now be verified. The left and right bays are lit by tall 1/1 sliding sash windows with horns, exposed sash boxes, and painted stone cills. The first floor has diminished-height windows: two each to the left and right bays, and one to the middle landing bay. All sash windows on this elevation have horns and exposed boxes.

The left gable has a timber casement window just left of ground floor centre and a smaller similar casement above at first-floor level; both have thin concrete cills and appear to be in modern openings. The attic floor has small metal-framed casement windows at each end without cills.

The rear elevation has a modern semi-glazed painted timber door at ground-floor centre opening from the hallway. Immediately above, between ground and first floors, is a modern timber casement landing light with concrete cill. A projecting return formerly existed in this bay but has been removed. The left bay retains the remains of an 8/8 sliding sash window with exposed boxes at ground floor, and a 1/1 exposed-box sash above; both have smooth rendered architraves.

The right bay is abutted at ground floor by a one-and-a-half-storey return with pitched natural slate roof, half-round metal gutters to its west side, wet-dashed walls, and brick eaves courses. The first floor has a small modern timber casement window without cill. The return's left cheek (facing east to the yard) has a modern metal casement window just right of centre. Its gable end has modern metal casement windows at ground and upper floors. Its right cheek has a 2/2 exposed-box sash window at its right end. All windows to the return have concrete cills.

The right gable is abutted at ground floor by a modern flat-roofed concrete block garage. The first floor has a 1/1 sliding sash window with exposed boxes and concrete cill, and small metal-framed windows at each end of the attic floor.

Just northwest of the house stands a two-storey, single-bay farm outbuilding or cart house with hipped natural slate roof and random rubble walls, partly dashed and partly whitewashed. External steps on the north gable lead to the first floor. The yard is enclosed to the north and east by a random rubble masonry wall.