Eastwood, 8 Cranfield Road, Ballynahatten, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LL

Eastwood is a one and three-quarter storey, three-bay mid-19th century picturesque house with a two-storey return to the rear, facing south-west on the south side of Cranfield Road.

The main block has a half-hipped natural slate roof with oversailing eaves supported by pairs of plain timber eaves brackets carrying a boarded soffit. A gabled dormer rises from the wall head on the front elevation. Two cement harled chimneys are symmetrically placed on the ridge either side of the central bay, with a third on the return. Rainwater goods are semicircular metal. The walls are painted lime dash with stepped ashlar granite quoins and chamfered granite base course, all painted. The façade and side elevations are decorated with slightly recessed full-height semi-elliptical headed panels.

The three wall panels to the façade each contain an opening. The central one is narrower and contains the main entrance. Two granite steps rise to the front door, which is painted timber, four-panelled with the top two panes glazed and a beaded muntin. Flanking the door are narrow sidelights, each with interlocking iron tracery, and above is a segmental cobweb fanlight. All windows to the main block are sliding sashes without horns, with painted granite cills. The left and right bays each have a single large rectangular 6/6 exposed box sash without horns. The central dormer contains a small margined 3/3 spoke-headed window above the front door.

The left gable has stepped quoins to both corners and two semi-elliptical wall panels as on the façade, each containing a 6/6 sliding sash to the ground floor. To the first floor are two 3/6 sashes, one per panel, all with painted granite cills.

The rear elevation features a two-storey return at the right which has been subsequently extended on its left cheek. The remaining wall to the left is harled and whitewashed, with a blocked-up door opening at ground floor left covered with smooth render, and a spoke-headed 3/6 sash window lighting the half-landing at first floor right. The return roof is half-hipped and naturally slated and the extension roof catslides from the return roof. A cement rendered chimney sits on the extension's ridge, and a flat roof dormer sits on its left pitch above the left cheek extension. The north end of the road-facing elevation has stepped quoins, though the left cheek is abutted by the extension except for a small exposed section. This section has, at ground floor, a two-paned fixed timber window without a cill, and at first floor a fixed 1/1 modern casement window with top opening transom and a painted cill. The extension has painted smooth rendered walls. From the yard, its left cheek has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door serving a small porch formed by a corrugated plastic canopy stretching to the rear wall of the main house. The eastern façade of the extension has at ground floor left a two-paned metal casement window and to its right a small four-paned casement, both with painted granite cills. At first floor left is a 3/6 sash window and to the right a 1/1 sash with horns. The right cheek is flush with the gable of the return. The original roofline of the return has been retained where the extension abuts.

A single-storey extension (laundry room) accessed from inside partly abuts the north gable of the return and right cheek of its extension. The remaining exposed wall of the return has at ground floor right a 3/6 sliding sash, with a similar window in line above. This extension has rendered random rubble walls canted at the left, a half-hipped asbestos slate roof with skylight, and no gutters. A small single-pane window is in its north wall; both cheeks are blank.

The right cheek of the return is set back slightly from the left gable of the main block. It has two 3/6 sliding sashes to the ground floor, the right one narrower than the left. First floor left has a 3/6 sliding sash, narrower than that below and slightly diminished in height; all have painted cills. The right elevation is detailed as the façade and has two semi-elliptical headed wall panels with quoins to the left side only. The left panel has a 6/6 window to the ground floor; the right panel is blank but with an off-centre modern 3/6 window breaking its right jamb. To the first floor are two 3/6 sash windows, one to each panel.

The rear yard is enclosed to the east by a high stone wall and to the north by single-storey outhouses, accessed from the north-west through a gateway. The gateway piers are square in section, built of squared rubble with pyramidal concrete caps and support a pair of inappropriate low modern timber gates.

The gateway from the road consists of a pair of low convex sweeping dashed and painted walls meeting a pair of dashed piers with pyramidal copings. The left wall incorporates a milk-churn platform of three rendered steps. The gates are wrought iron, apparently original, with decorative wrought finials to each vertical, though they no longer meet, suggesting the opening has been altered at some time. Gardens to the west and north are plainly landscaped.