34 Kilbroney Road, Rostrevor, Newry, BT34 3BJ

GENERAL DESCRIPTION Small, low two-storey semi-detached house of c.1870, broadly vernacular in appearance but with relatively uniform fenestration, and a single-storey return that appears to have been modified in the mid to later 20th century. SETTING The house is set on the E side of Kilbroney Road on the northern outskirts of Rostrevor, about 0.9km NE of the centre of the settlement, with a large garden / field to the S and a small garden to the road-facing front bounded by a low timber ‘picket’ fence. The attached property to the N was presumably originally similar to its neighbour, but having undergone considerable alteration in relatively recent decades, is now contrastingly modern. FRONT ELEVATION Three openings wide to the ground floor with slightly left of centre entrance with timber-sheeted door and a window either side with timber sash (six over six) frames with broad boxes. Directly over these are two smaller upper-level windows with two over two timber sash frames set within small ‘quarter’ gabled dormers with timber bargeboards. The window to left is surrounded by a slightly convoluted downspout arrangement and has lost a section of bargeboard. S ELEVATION Blank gable to right with S side of single-storey return to left and set back to far left, a small outside toilet extension. Return has right of centre window with modern timber frame, and the toilet has a timber sheeted door. REAR (W) ELEVATION Main body of house has two windows as ground floor front with a much smaller upper-level to right set close to the eaves, with a timber casement frame. Rear end of return and toilet to right with timber sheeted door, doorway on return with door as previous. N ELEVATION Return only with window as S side. WALL FINISH The façade of the main section is largely finished in limewash. The return appears to be in part cement rendered, whilst the toilet is roughcast, the walls here are finished in limewash also. ROOF The main roof is gabled and slated, with some of the slate covered in pitch. There is a single rendered chimneystack. The return has a shallow single-pitch roof which appears to be covered in asphalt with timber fascia boards. The toilet also has a single-pitch roof but with a corrugated plastic covering. WALLS: roughcast lime render,limewashed in white ROOF: natura slate with some 'pitch' applied; hardwood painted barges RWGS: cast iron, painted WINDOWS: timber sliding sash multi-pane as described above to front elevation, casement and modern timber replacement to rear