14 Main Street, Forkhill, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 9SQ

A much altered two-storey, three-bay house with outbuildings to the rear, aligned east-west and set below and to the east of Main Street at Forkhill. The building is bounded to the east by the Forkhill River.

The main house features a pitched natural slate roof with two cement-dashed and painted chimneys, one to each gable. The eaves are overhanging and boxed, fitted with ogee aluminium rainwater goods. The principal elevation faces south. Walls are cement-dashed and painted with a smooth rendered base course and bands to each corner. At the centre is a semicircular-headed entrance with a smooth cement-rendered surround. The entrance door is modern varnished timber with matching glazed timber sidelights and a sunburst fanlight above. Either side of the entrance are 8/8 uPVC top-hung casements mimicking sashes, with concrete cills and smooth rendered surrounds. This window pattern is repeated on the first floor with three similar windows. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation is almost entirely abutted by a two-storey return, with only a small exposed section which is blank. The right gable has a 6/6 top-hung casement to the first floor right.

The rear return is detailed as the main block. Its west-facing elevation has a landscape window to the ground floor centre and a window to the first floor right. The rear elevation has a landscape side-hung casement to the ground floor left, a modern door to the right of centre, and a small window to the right-end. The first floor has two windows, one to centre and one to the right-end. The east-facing elevation has two 8/8 casement windows to each floor. At its right-end, a single-storey conservatory with a monopitched natural slate roof is abutted to this elevation. The conservatory's south cheek has a modern uPVC door, the principal east face is four windows wide, the north cheek is blank, and the west face has a pair of French doors.

Beyond the domestic yard to the rear are a number of outbuildings, all constructed with rubble stone walls and pitched natural slate roofs unless otherwise stated. These include a gardener's house (now roofless), a barn, and a granary.

The barn is aligned east-west and encloses the domestic rear yard to the north. It is two-storey with numerous timber louvred openings and a rendered and painted south face. Its right gable has a loading door and three square recesses to the ground floor. The rear north elevation has two six-panelled timber doors, one to the ground floor left and one to the first floor right. The right-end is abutted by the granary. The south face of the barn is rendered and painted.

The gardener's house is single-storey and two-bay, aligned north-south to the east side of the yard. It is now roofless with a brick chimney to each gable. At the centre is a tongue-and-groove sheeted door flanked by a 2/2 sliding sash window. Its left gable is abutted by a lower animal house with a pitched corrugated metal roof. The rear elevation and right gable are blank.

The granary stands on the west side of the yard and is two-storey with a hipped natural slate roof. Its rear elevation backs onto Main Street. The principal elevation faces east and is abutted to the left-end by the barn. The ground floor has three semicircular-headed door openings, the left of which is infilled. The first floor has two window openings and a loading door to the right-end. The right gable has a large door opening accessed by a ramp. The rear elevation has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to the right-end. The left gable has two louvered openings.

The house is prominently sited to the northwest of Forkhill Bridge on the entry into the village. It is enclosed to Main Street and to the rear by a rubble stone wall with stone copings. A pair of finely dressed granite gate piers, square in section, with trefoil recesses in the copings support arrow-headed wrought-iron railings. A pair of similarly detailed gates are hung on decorative birdcage pillars with matching trefoil recesses in the copings.