21 Cloughmore Road Rostrevor Newry BT34 3EN

A detached three-bay two-storey villa built in 1897-98, set behind a 1.8-metre tall random rubble boundary wall within a well-maintained garden on the south-eastern edge of Rostrevor village. The house is approached via a curving drive from Cloughmore Road through an entrance marked by tall square-plan rendered pillars with stone coping and a metal gate.

The main body of the house is square in plan with full-height square projections to the east and west, two full-height canted bays dominating the front (south) elevation, a two-storey gable return and a single-storey mono-pitch roof return to the rear (north). The pitched natural Welsh slate main roof features a central enclosed valley and is hipped to the canted bays. Two tall rendered chimneystacks with architrave, corbels and concave pitched coping rise prominently, each finished with stone cope stones and four pots (one pot latterly replaced with a modern flue). The walls are finished in lined render with rustication to the ground floor (except at the north-east corner and rear returns), heavy rustication to quoins below the projecting first-floor sill course on the south, east and west elevations, and in-out quoins at these elevations. The rear returns are more sparely treated with unlined render and no quoins or sill course. Painted stone sills are provided throughout. Eaves are painted timber with cast-iron rainwater goods. Windows are a mix of square-headed and flat-arched openings, predominantly one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows.

The south (front) elevation is symmetrical, dominated by two full-height canted bays flanking a central entrance. Two steps lead to a flat-arched main entrance opening with rendered corner pilasters and profiled render surround. The doorway contains single panelled timber doors within glass sidelights and a tripartite fanlight. Above this, a wrought-iron entrance porch and balcony with decorative cast-iron railings is supported by three slender cast-iron columns either side and is accessed via a first-floor flat-arched opening containing narrow double doors and fanlight. Both canted bays feature square-headed window openings with one-over-one sliding sash windows.

The east elevation shows the main body of the house with single flat-arched window openings at ground and first-floor levels containing one-over-one timber sash windows. A full-height square bay projects from the southern portion, featuring paired flat-arched window openings at both levels with one-over-one sash windows, with quoins at the corners.

The west elevation likewise has single flat-arched window openings at ground and first-floor levels. A full-height square projection extends from the northern portion of this elevation, with quoins to its front-facing corners but not at the rear north-east corner. A rendered wall and gate at the north-east corner separate the rear of the property.

The north (rear) elevation is less formally arranged. A double-storey return to the right has a slate pitched roof with its ridge set beneath the eaves of the main roof and a lean-to rear entrance lobby attached to the gable. A central round-headed opening at first-floor level houses a replacement stained-glass tripartite window with peripheral muntins. To the left stands a modest single-storey return with one-over-one sliding sash windows at ground and first-floor levels, and a single top-hung casement window in the lean-to.

The rear yard contains a rectangular two-storey outbuilding to the west with roughcast walls and slated pitched roof. The west elevation has a single square-headed opening with a replacement casement window at first floor. The north elevation is blank. The south elevation has a small structure attached. The east elevation features three square-headed openings at first-floor level, with two doorway openings at ground floor (one with sidelight) situated adjacent to a small outhouse.

Materials throughout comprise rendered walls, natural Welsh slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, and timber windows and doors.