2 Rathfriland Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5UR is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 22 September 1981.

2 Rathfriland Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5UR

WRENN ID
low-loggia-snow
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Newry, Mourne and Down
Constituency
South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
22 September 1981
Address
2 Rathfriland Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5UR, Carcullion, BT34 5UR
Irish grid reference
J 211 289
Coordinates
54.19537, -6.14455
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a two-storey, three-bay house dating to the late 19th century, situated on the west side of Rathfriland Road in Hilltown, Newry. It was originally built as a combined domestic and commercial property, sharing a site with an adjoining shop (referenced as HB16/04/004b). The house's entrance is particularly elaborate.

The house features a pitched natural slate roof with a chimney on each gable. The left side of the building is pebble-dashed, while the right side is rendered and has a coped detail, topped with three octagonal Victorian chimney pots that are shared with the adjacent shop. Semicircular metal gutters run along a slightly advanced eaves course. The front elevation, facing east, is smooth rendered and painted. Each of the left and right bays has a two-storey canted bay window with a canted hipped natural slate roof and a terracotta finial. These canted bays each contain a 1/1 sliding sash window with horns, sharing a common rendered cill. The central bay contains the main entrance, featuring a modern glazed timber door with matching sidelights under a segmental headed fanlight. This entrance is set within a segmental headed opening decorated with fluted stucco pilasters supporting a run moulded archivolt. A vermiculated keyblock is positioned above the pilasters, flanked by scrolls. The first floor window above the entrance is a 1/1 sliding sash window with a run moulded stucco architrave and a vermiculated keyblock, similar to those on the first floor of the adjoining shop. The left gable is pebble-dashed and has a modern fixed window with a top-hung transom at first floor level, with a painted granite cill. The rear elevation is largely obscured by a lean-to two-storey return, the roof of which slopes down from the rear pitch of the main roof. The left cheek of the rear return has a post-World War II door and a steel casement window, leading into a small yard behind the shop. The right gable of the house forms a party wall with the adjacent shop. A painted rendered dwarf wall supports late 19th century wrought iron railings, enclosing a small garden at the front.

The property was first documented in a valuation revision book entry in 1884 and remained in common ownership with the shop until approximately 1998. Modern alterations and changes to the interior have diminished the original architectural and historical significance of the building.

Local climate

2 Rathfriland Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5UR sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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