Threshing Barn, Beside 18 Livins Road, Attical, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down

The barn is a good example of traditional stonemasonry and a complete survivor of what was once a more common type of agricultural building. Constructed between 1920 and 1939, it is located beside 18 Livins Road in the townland of Attical, near Kilkeel, Newry, County Down.

This one-storey, one-bay barn sits parallel to the road, to the east side of an associated dwelling house (listed as HB16/5/047A). It has a pitched roof covered with natural slate, without rainwater goods. The walls are built from dressed and squared random rubble granite. Most openings, with the exception of the main entrance, have been infilled with concrete blockwork. The original window openings retain granite heads and stooled cills, and were formerly shuttered. The main façade, facing north towards the road, features a pair of timber tongue-and-groove sliding doors set within a segmental arch with splayed voussoirs on the right-hand side. A window is located on the left. The left gable has a single opening leading to the loft. The rear elevation includes a door on the left and two small openings on the right. The right gable has a door at its centre, featuring a five-piece granite head.

A paved granite horse walk, complete with a cast or wrought iron gin, runs in front of the barn, between the window opening and the main door. This gin incorporates a bevel gear driving a small pinion, with the shaft extending underneath the walk to the threshing mechanism within the barn.

The barn was erected in 1935 by stonemasons Niall Trainor, Peter Cunningham and Daniel Cunningham. It is of vernacular style and holds industrial archaeological interest.