Farm, Opposite 26 Oldtown Lane, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4FX

The former farm building, located opposite 26 Oldtown Lane in Annalong, Newry, County Down, was demolished in 1999. It was likely constructed between 1800 and 1819, possibly raised from an earlier single-storey structure. The building was a two-storey, two-bay vernacular farmhouse, retaining its traditional plan form and internal features.

The main, or south-east, elevation featured a gabled porch with a recessed apex and slate roof, incorporating a boarded door at the left end. Two windows, one in each bay, were positioned to the right of the porch, with smaller windows aligned above on the first floor. All windows were 2/2 sliding sash windows with granite cills. An upper floor window was also present in the left gable. The walls were rendered, likely over a granite rubble core, and whitewashed. The rear wall was blank.

Adjacent to the right gable was a lower, single-storey slated outbuilding with a natural slate gabled roof and cement-dashed granite rubble walls. It featured two painted tongue-and-groove doors facing the yard and a small metal window in the apex of its right gable. A further one-storey outhouse, aligned parallel to the yard, created a double pile. This outhouse had a gabled corrugated metal roof, dashed walls, a tongue-and-groove timber door to its façade, and a timber louvred opening in the apex of its right gable; the left gable was plain.

Immediately to the left of the house’s left gable stood a wrought-iron gate between rubble granite posts, alongside a cast-iron pump. A building was shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map, though it’s absence from the 1834 valuation book makes the building’s initial form unclear. Its inclusion in the 1861 valuation book, without measurements, prevents accurate dating of the two-storey alterations. The setting included a byre, pump, and gates.