4 Trasna Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8LG

This is a pleasantly situated, single-storey, three-bay vernacular dwelling with associated outbuildings, located within the Ring of Gullion Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The house is aligned northwest-southeast and sits on the west side of Trasna Road. It dates to between 1860 and 1879, although a building is depicted at this location on Ordnance Survey maps from 1835 and 1861, but with a different alignment.

The dwelling has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with ridge tiles and two red brick chimneys – one to the left gable and one between the central and right bays. Cement skews are present on each gable, and a small cast-iron skylight is set into the rear pitch. There are no rainwater goods. The slates on the third bay are half side-lapped, with gaps between adjoining slates. The walls are lime rendered, with a tarred base course. The principal, northeast-facing elevation features a 6/3 exposed box sliding sash window with horns and an irregular stone sill in the left bay. To the right of this is a slightly advanced windbreak porch with a natural slate roof that ties into the main roof pitch. The porch front is clad in t+g sheeted timber, with blank cheeks on either side. The right bay also has a window of the same design. A central t+g sheeted door provides access to a former byre in the third bay. The left and right gables are cement-rendered and blank. The rear elevation is built into a bank and has a single window set to the left of centre.

Two outbuildings are situated to the front of the site, aligned roughly east-west. Both are constructed of lime-rendered rubble stone with pitched corrugated metal roofs, with the one on the left slightly lower. Each outbuilding has several door openings to the south-facing front, now fitted with modern doors. The dwelling and outbuildings are enclosed from the road by a rubble stone wall. At the left end of the wall are a pair of cylindrical lime-rendered rubble stone gate piers with concrete copings, which support a wrought-iron gate. A Valuation revision book entry from 1871 notes an increase in the site's valuation, suggesting a potential rebuild, as a building matching the current plan form appears on the 1906-07 Ordnance Survey map.