23 Clontigora Road, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 8RW

This is a privately situated vernacular farmhouse with a small group of outbuildings that create a sense of enclosure. The house itself is thought to have been constructed between 1840 and 1859, likely evolving from an earlier, simpler structure.

The two-storey, two-bay house faces northeast along Clontigora Road, with various outbuildings positioned in front. It has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with a brick chimney at each gable, and half-round metal rainwater goods. The walls are lime-rendered rubble stone, with evidence of rougher walls at the lower section, indicating that the house originally started as a single-storey building and was later raised to its current two-storey form. The principal elevation features a windbreak porch with a pitched natural slate roof and a tongue-and-groove half door on its front face; the sides of the porch are blank. Either side of the porch are windows with concrete sills, and matching, taller windows are positioned above on the first floor. Most of these are 2/2 sliding sash windows, with the ground-floor window on the left side being a 3/3. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation has infilled window openings in each bay at ground floor level, both with concrete cills. The right gable is adjoined by two single-storey outbuildings, and hosts a fixed 2x2 window on the first floor to the left. The outbuildings have pitched roofs, lime-rendered walls, and tongue-and-groove sheeted doors on their front faces. The outbuilding to the left has a corrugated metal roof, while the one to the right has a natural slate roof. A corrugated metal lean-to abuts the right gable of the outbuilding to the right and is not of particular interest. The rear elevations of both outbuildings are blank. Two additional small outbuildings, considered to be of no particular interest, are located on the front site.

A building is shown on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map of the site, but its valuation suggested a small, single-storey structure. Its valuation in 1862 was £1.10s.0d, but was revised to £1 in 1903 and remained unchanged thereafter. This suggests the house was raised to its present form between 1835 and 1862. The building is noted to have been recorded as derelict, and is considered of local historical interest.