9 Cullion Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5BA

This is a small, vernacular farmhouse dating from approximately 1800 to 1819. It is located on the western side of Cullion Road in the townland of Cullion, near Rathfriland. The house is two bays wide and has one and a half stories. The left gable faces Cullion Road. It features a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with concrete coping and a chimney on each gable. A small metal skylight is positioned centrally on the front pitch. There is an advanced brick eaves course, but no rainwater goods are present. The rubble stone walls are rendered and painted. The front elevation, facing northwest, contains a projecting porch with a pitched natural slate roof and cement-rendered brick walls; the porch is now missing its front door, and the side cheeks are blank. Each bay of the front elevation has a single vertically divided sliding sash window with horns and a granite cill. Two small vertically divided sash windows are set into the left gable at the upper floor. The rear elevation has a single window in each bay; the left bay has a modern casement window, while the right bay has a vertically divided sliding sash.

A lower outbuilding abuts the right gable and has a pitched natural slate roof with a brick chimney to its right gable. The outbuilding's walls are of rubble stone with brick eaves and no rainwater goods. Its front wall is flush with the main house, featuring a tongue-and-groove (t+g) sheeted door to the left and a metal casement window to the right. The rear wall of the outbuilding is also flush with the house.

In front of the house is a yard, enclosed to the west by a two-story outbuilding with a pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls laid in courses, two tongue-and-groove sheeted doors, small ventilation openings, and two small, shuttered openings at the first floor. The left gable of this outbuilding has a tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door leading to a loft, while the rear and right gables are blank.

The house’s footprint appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map and was initially valued at under £5. Its value rose to £1.5s.0d in approximately 1862 and further increased to £2 in 1885, likely reflecting the addition of outbuildings. It remained valued at £2 thereafter and was occupied until the late 1970s. The house is currently in private ownership and recorded as derelict, though it remains in residential use.