19 Foughilletra Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RH

19 Foughilletra Road, Jonesborough, Newry

A pleasantly sited and well-maintained vernacular dwelling of mid-19th century date, retaining most of its original character. Along with its outbuildings, it forms an attractive hillside group.

The main house is a two-storey, three-bay vernacular structure aligned west-east on the east side of Foughilletra Road, with the left bay single-storey. It sits on an elevated site accessed by a lane with rubble stone boundary walls on either side. The house is approached through square-section whitewashed rubble stone gate piers (without copings) supporting a pair of ram's-head wrought-iron gates.

The principal elevation faces north. The building has a pitched natural slate roof with tiled verges and cement-rendered chimneys to each gable. An advanced eaves course supports half-round metal rainwater goods, with downpipe to the right of centre. The façade is whitewashed random rubble stone; all other elevations are cement rendered.

All windows are top-hung metal-framed casements with no cills, and those to the ground floor have modern steel grilles fitted over them. Left of centre is a projecting porch with pitched natural slate roof and timber-sheeted front door; its right and left cheeks are blank. To either side of the porch is a window; that to the right has been enlarged within its original opening. The first floor has two windows, diminished in height; the left window is slightly smaller than the other first-floor window and is not aligned with the opening directly below. The single-storey left bay has a central window. The left gable is abutted to the front by a single-storey outbuilding set perpendicular to the house; the exposed section of the left gable and central bay are blank. The rear elevation of the main block has a window to each floor of each bay.

The left gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof, whitewashed façade, and two tongue-and-groove sheeted doors to centre; all other elevations are cement rendered and blank. The right gable is abutted by a single-storey outbuilding detailed similarly, but with a pitched corrugated metal roof. Its north face has two tongue-and-groove sheeted doors, one to the extreme left end and one to the right of centre; the rear elevation is blank. This outbuilding's right gable is abutted by a lower and narrower shed with lean-to corrugated metal roof and cement-rendered walls, with a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to the north face; all other elevations are blank.

Opposite the house stands a two-storey barn with pitched natural slate roof. The south elevation has two central doors under a common timber lintel. At first-floor level, set to the right of centre, is an infilled window opening with metal sheeting. The left gable is abutted by a small cement-rendered lean-to shed with monopitched natural slate roof and a large opening to the south. The exposed gable of the main barn block has an infilled window opening to centre. The rear elevation has a loading door accessed by three external granite steps. The right gable is blank. All openings in the barn are tongue-and-groove sheeted unless otherwise stated.

Cartographic evidence indicates that a building stood at this location on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map, but its plan does not accord with the present structure, which is shown from the 1861 edition onward. The Valuation books record no subsequent changes in rateable values. The present building evidently dates from the mid-19th century, constructed between 1840 and 1859.

The listing extends to the house, outbuildings, gate piers, and gates.