Adj to 49 Cranfield Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LJ

Adjacent to 49 Cranfield Road, Kilkeel, there stands a group of four buildings forming the core of a former 19th century coastguard station, still remembered locally as 'Coastguard Yard'.

The first house is a single storey structure aligned north-south with four bays. It has a pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and terracotta ridges. Two harled concrete coped chimneys sit between bays one and two, and between bays three and four. The walls are modern pebble dashed with all windows having thin concrete cills. On the west (front) elevation, bay two contains a modern part-glazed painted plywood door, while the remaining bays each have a single window—modern painted timber fixed lights with top-hung transoms. The north and south gables are blank. The east elevation has a window on each bay, all modern fixed-paned timber with side-hung casements. A doorway on bay two is now blocked up.

The first outbuilding is one and a half storeys, aligned north-west to south-east to the south-west of the main house. It has a pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and walls of granite rubble brought to courses. The north-east (front) elevation contains, from left to right, a modern timber door, a small modern fixed window, a blocked doorway, and a small fixed window. To the right is a vehicle entrance partially blocked with concrete and timber slats forming vents above. Thin vents in the masonry sit in the wall head at centre and left, above the door and window. The left (south-east) gable has a sheeted loading door to the upper floor with a red brick cill. The north-west gable has a large pair of sliding doors. The south-west elevation has a corrugated door left of centre, with three infilled window openings—one to the left of the door and two to the right.

The second outbuilding is one and a half storeys, aligned north-south to the north-east of the house. It has a pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and terracotta ridges. The walls are modern wet-dashed render. The south gable has a blocked-up loading door to the first floor. The north gable is blank. The east elevation has a modern opening to the left and a large modern vehicle opening with a timber-and-groove sheeted door and modern fixed window to the right. The west elevation is blank.

The second house is one and a half storeys with three bays, aligned west-east on the west side of Cranfield Road. It has a pitched natural stone slate roof of small unevenly dressed slates with a greenish colour, laid in diminishing courses and tarred to the front pitch. One cast iron skylight is inset onto the front pitch with two to the rear. Three cement-rendered chimneys—one to either gable and another on the party wall between the left and central bays—rise from the structure. Red brick skews support the roof. Half-round plastic rainwater goods sit on a modern timber eaves board attached to projecting eaves. The walls are cement wet-dashed with a smooth basecourse. All openings have thin smooth cement architraves and all windows have thin concrete cills. The principal elevation faces south. A glazed post-World War II door at the left side of the central bay has a full-height sidelight to its right. To the right is a three-paned modern timber casement window, with similar windows to each remaining bay. The left gable is blank at ground floor and has two 2/2 sliding sashes with horns and without cills. The rear elevation has a partially-glazed modern door to the left side of the central bay, with a two-paned modern casement window to the right bay. The right bay has an out-shot with a flat roof and modern glazing. The right gable is abutted by a lean-to outbuilding and is otherwise blank. This lean-to has a mono-pitched artificial slate roof with rubble stone walls. Its front wall is blank, while its rear wall has a vehicle entrance. The wall of the main block enclosed within the lean-to is lime-dashed and washed with a pink pigment. The small front garden has been cleared to allow access to a modern replacement house to the north-east.