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

Eastwood is an attractive and well-proportioned mid-Victorian dwelling of formalised style and plan form, retaining much of its original character. Dating from between 1840 and 1859, it first appears on the 1859 Ordnance Survey map and was described in the 1863 valuation as "a very handsome little villa" belonging to James Coatis.

The building is a one and three-quarter storey, three-bay picturesque house with a two-storey return to the rear, facing south-west on the south side of Cranfield Road. It is constructed with walls of painted lime dash, featuring stepped ashlar granite quoins and a chamfered granite basecourse, also painted. The roof is half-hipped with natural slate and oversailing eaves, supported by pairs of plain timber eaves brackets with boarded soffit. Two cement harled chimneys are symmetrically placed on the ridge either side of the central bay, with a third on the return.

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, with the central one being narrower and containing the main entrance. Two granite steps rise to the front door, which is painted timber, four-panelled with the top two glazed and 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 rectangular 6/6 exposed box sash window without horns. Above the front door in the central dormer is a small margined 3/3 spoke-headed window.

The left gable has stepped quoins to both corners and two semi-elliptical wall panels, each containing a 6/6 sliding sash to the ground floor, with two 3/6 sashes to the first floor. All windows have painted granite cills. A gabled dormer rises from the wall head on the front elevation. Rainwater goods are semicircular metal.

The rear elevation features a two-storey return with a subsequently added extension on its left cheek. The return roof is half-hipped with natural slate and a cement rendered chimney on its ridge. A flat roof dormer sits on its left pitch above the left cheek extension. The remaining exposed wall to the left is harled and whitewashed, with a blocked up door opening at ground floor left (smoothly rendered over) and a spoke-headed 3/6 sash window at first floor right. The return has stepped quoins to the north end of its road-facing elevation only. The extension has painted smooth rendered walls with a t+g sheeted door serving a small porch formed by a corrugated plastic canopy. A single-storey laundry room extension, with rendered random rubble walls, half-hipped asbestos slate roof with skylight, and no gutters, partly abuts the north gable of the return and right cheek of its extension.

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 contains a 6/6 window to the ground floor; the right panel is blank but has an off-centre modern 3/6 window. The first floor has two 3/6 sash windows, one to each panel.

The setting includes a rear yard 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 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, appear original with decorative wrought finials to each vertical, though they no longer meet, suggesting the opening has been altered. Gardens to the west and north are plainly landscaped.

Historically, the southern portion of the garden was requisitioned during the Second World War to accommodate the construction of Greencastle Aerodrome, at which time trees along the road boundary were cleared. A photograph of the building taken from the road in 1975 is held in the Northern Ireland Architectural Archive.