The Old Rectory, 74 Drumintee Road, Meigh, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 8SJ

The Old Rectory is a two-storey, three-bay house aligned north-south on the east side of Drumintee Road, with a gabled projecting right bay. The pitched artificial slate roof carries two tall cement-rendered and corbelled chimneys: one set parallel to the house axis east of the cross gable on the right bay, and another on the rear pitch aligned perpendicular to the house axis on the party wall between the left and central bays. A skylight sits to the left of the latter chimney. The rear pitch is shallower in its lower section as the rear wall is set further back from the middle of the gable than the front wall. The eaves overhang with exposed rafter tails and narrow timber bargeboards to the gables. All rainwater goods are half-round metal. The walls are wet-dashed with granite cills throughout.

The principal elevation faces west and features a Picturesque projecting porch set slightly to the right of the central bay with a steeply gabled natural slate roof rising almost to eaves level. To the porch's left is a tall 2x3 window lighting the stairwell. The porch comprises two sections: the front section is probably a later addition and is slightly narrower, with cusped traceried glazing to all faces over a painted cement-rendered base course and continuous cill course. The front face contains a timber double-leaf entrance door, each leaf with a lower bolection-moulded panel and Victorian obscured floral glazing above, with a plain rectangular transom light over. The left and right cheeks each contain a side-hung casement window. The earlier and wider rear section of the porch has a monopitched natural slate roof with cement-rendered and painted exposed ends, a top-hung casement window to the left cheek, and a blank right cheek.

The left bay has a 2x2 mullion and transom window to the ground floor set within a stepped cement-rendered and painted reveal with label-mould over, following a pattern repeated on all windows. The gabled right bay has a 3x2 window to each floor; the ground floor window is set within a projecting bay with steep monopitched natural slate roof and painted cement-rendered walls and cill course, while the first floor window is slightly diminished in height. The left gable has a 1/1 sliding sash window with timber mullion at ground floor left of centre, and a 3x2 window to first floor centre. In the extended left section is a shorter 1/1 sliding sash window without label mould. These windows are set within narrow smooth rendered reveals.

The rear elevation is abutted by a modern single-storey kitchen extension to the right bay, extending beyond the gable of the main block. The gabled left bay has a 3x2 window to each floor, the first floor window slightly diminished in height. The central bay has a 2x2 window set in a narrow cement-rendered reveal without label mould, with two equally spaced, similarly detailed but diminished windows to the first floor. The extension has a flat felted roof with timber eaves board and walls matching the main block. It contains a modern timber glazed door to the right, accessed by five cement steps enclosed by a cement wall, and a modern top-hung casement window to the left. The left cheek of the extension has a fixed-paned window without cill; the right cheek is blank.

The right elevation is abutted by a modern glazed conservatory at the right end, obstructing a former window. To its left is a projecting 3x2 bay window matching that on the principal façade.

To the rear of the house is a small domestic yard with a two-storey outbuilding to the east. It has a pitched natural slate roof and coursed rubble-stone walls. The yard-facing elevation has a large segmental-headed opening to the centre flanked by a door opening to either side, all with brick heads. To the extreme right end is a 1/1 sliding sash window, and below eaves level are two narrow ventilation openings.

The house stands within a mature wooded garden and is well concealed from the road, accessed by a sweeping tree-lined driveway.