House N of 42 Old Newry Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5BQ

A single storey, two bay vernacular house up a lane off Old Newry Road. Pitched roof with a rendered and coped chimney to each gable. Front pitch is asbestos slated and the rear pitch is natural slate. Raised masonry eaves course carries modern plastic rainwater goods. Principal elevation faces SE. Walls are harled over rubble stone. Left bay has a windbreak porch on its right side. Porch has a monopitch natural slate roof and t+g sheeted door. Its left and right cheeks are blank. Remainder of left bay has a 6/6 exposed box sliding sash window (bottom sash gone). Right bay has a similar window opening, which is obscured with a corrugated metal sheet. Both have granite cills. Left and right gables are identical. Both have a small 1/1 timber framed window set at attic level. Rear elevation has a doorway on right bay and a window opening (with brick cill) on left bay. Both openings are covered in sheet metal. Setting Access from the lane is through a pair of wrought iron gates with dog bars. Gates are plainly detailed; all verticals having rounded ends and the clasping bar is inscribed “ WW”. Rock faced granite gate piers. The small area to front of the house has a similar gate into the front field, a pedestrian gate into a garden at left of house and an open cart way at right of house into the rear farmyard. Single storey outbuildings enclose farmyard to the SW and NE. They are built of rubble stone with pitched roofs. All derelict and their roofs are stripped of slates.