Mourne Grange, Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34

A two storey / three bay country house of moderate size in Lombardic Romanesque Style. South facing, its main front is symmetrical. Roof is hipped and the top is flat, surrounded by a decorative cast iron balustrade. It has recently been re-roofed and the flat is now covered in butyl rubber, with only two main slopes are natural slate. All other roofs are artificial slate and hips have grey concrete tiles. Four cement rendered chimneys with corbelled copings are irregularly placed. Bracketed overhanging eaves support plastic and cast iron rainwater goods. Walls are smooth painted render with advanced basecourse, stepped stucco quoins, and a chamfered string course between ground and first floors. Central bay of façade is abutted by a single storey porch, which has a flat roof behind a block parapet. Walls are as façade with the chamfered string continuing from main block as its eaves. Its front wall has a triple light window (central one wider) with moulded semicircular heads and a common rendered cill. On its left (west) face is a single light window and on the right (east) is the main entrance. This consists of a pair of narrow three panelled (bolection moulded), doors with a semicircular headed plain glazed fanlight over. Ground floor left bay has a pair of modern top hung timber casements divided horizontally in imitation of the original sliding sashes. Windows are similar to each remaining bay on façade, except that over porch which has a triple light of these windows, central one widest. Abutting the east elevation is a modern (much altered dating c1900) two storey dormitory wing, which advances onto the front lawn. West elevation. Ground floor (L-R) is a canted flat roofed bay of dressed granite then two separate windows and a door which appear to be an alteration to a window. At first floor from L-R has a pair of windows followed by three other evenly spaced separate windows. At the rear the only feature of note is the large semicircular-headed window to the staircase, this is sliding sash and is the only remaining original window in the building. The lower sash is six paned and the upper is three with radial glazing divisions above, both a glazed with coloured glass. All other windows are modern and there is a modern external spiral stair. To right is a two storey return with three bays and beyond that is a modern extension of roughly the same scale. Chapel in grounds is recorded HB16/05/004B. There are some remains of the original planting around the house but much has been lost to provide space for a range of separate modern buildings in the grounds.