24 Ballintate Road, Ballintate, Co.Armagh, BT60 2LB

A two-storey, three-bay symmetrical former dwelling with an attached single-storey scullery and outbuilding, built in 1933–34. The house is located down a lane to the south-east rear of No. 22 Ballintate Road in a rural setting with adjacent agricultural buildings, approximately seven miles north-west of Camlough, Co. Armagh, and about four miles west of Newry, Co. Down.

The north-west gable elevation faces the rear of No. 22, while the front façade faces north-east. The house is set back from and raised above the laneway, with the front garden bounded by a cement-rendered retaining wall topped with two rows of exposed concrete blockwork on the north-east and south-east sides. A pair of square-plan, cement-rendered piers with pyramidal copings forms a pedestrian entrance with steps leading to the front door. A post and wire fence bounds the north-west side.

The building is rectangular on plan. Its gable walls are constructed of red brick with sand and cement render, though a large area of red brick is exposed on the north-west gable where render has fallen away. The front and rear façades are clad in painted corrugated iron sheet affixed to a timber frame with screws and washers. A cement-rendered plinth with decorative metal ventilation grilles runs beneath. The pitched roof is tiled with fibre-cement tiles, each with chamfered corners, and fitted with red clay ridge tiles. Two red brick chimneys with yellow clay pots are positioned one at each gable-end. The attached single-storey scullery and outbuilding on the south-east is clad in painted corrugated iron sheet with a barrel-vaulted roof of the same material, supported on timber purlins with curved sarking boards.

All windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash with timber cills, some featuring scrolled horns. Not all retain glazing.

The front (north-east) elevation presents a two-storey, three-bay façade with a single-storey attached outbuilding to the left side. A central door opening contains a decorative timber door, likely contemporary with the house, with an oval top light of opaque patterned glazing (mostly missing) and tongue-and-groove timber panelling beneath, surrounded by a timber frame with an oblong overlight above. Single window openings flank the front door at ground floor level, with three windows aligned above on the first floor. The outbuilding on the left side has a door opening on its right side containing a timber sheeted door with a metal letterbox and a rectangular perspex overlight.

The north-west gable elevation (approach side) displays ruled and lined sand and cement render, with red brick exposed where the render has fallen away, built in a variation of English garden wall bond with four rows of stretchers between a row of headers. There are no openings.

The south-east gable elevation is abutted by the single-storey outbuilding. The exposed gabled wall above it is ruled and lined render with no openings. The south-east end elevation of the outbuilding has a central single opening without a door and a rectangular window aligned above with a three-pane metal-framed window.

The rear (south-west) elevation of the house has two window openings on both ground and first floor levels aligned vertically, and a half-landing window opening to the centre. The first floor windows have double-paned top-lights. The single-storey outbuilding has two window openings, one on the left side and one on the right.

Materials throughout comprise: timber 1/1 sliding sash windows with horns and single glazing where extant, with a metal-framed window to the outbuilding; cement ruled and lined render on red brick to the gables, painted corrugated iron sheet to the front and rear elevations and outbuilding; a fibre-cement tiled roof with red clay ridge tiles to the house and curved corrugated iron sheet to the outbuilding; and metal rainwater gutters on metal clip supports.