76 Trassey Road, Clonachullion, (south-west of Bryansford), Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0QB

This is a small, low-proportioned, two-storey vernacular farmhouse of pre-1834 origin, with a two-storey outbuilding attached to its east side. The property is located on the south side of Trassey Road, approximately 6.5 miles west of Newcastle and 4.5 miles southwest of Bryansford. The front façade faces north.

The main house features a small gabled porch centrally positioned with a timber-sheeted door. To the left of the porch is a window with a modern casement frame and a narrow, smooth rendered surround. A similar window is located to the right of the doorway. The first floor has two smaller windows positioned in line with the ground floor windows. The house merges with an attached outbuilding to the east, which has its own small lean-to porch with a timber-sheeted door and a four-pane window to the front. The first floor of this section contains a smaller two-pane window. Further outbuildings are attached to the east and west gables of the main house - one single-storey and longer than the other, both with timber-sheeted doors and corrugated iron gabled roofs. A single-storey lean-to kitchen/bathroom extension is at the rear of the house; its roof is largely covered in corrugated asbestos and incorporates modern window openings. A ground-floor casement window, similar to the front windows but without a surround, is located to the right of the lean-to on the main rear facade. The facade of the house is harled and painted, and the roof is covered in natural slate with rendered parapets. There are three rendered chimney stacks along the ridge of the roof, including one on the two-storey outbuilding, with cast iron rainwater goods. A concrete farmyard is situated to the front of the property.

A building is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834 on this site, likely corresponding to the present dwelling. The property was not recorded in contemporary valuation records, but it appears in the second valuation of 1863, when it was occupied by James Skillen Jnr. and had a rateable value of £1. The Skillen family remained in possession until 1923, when it was acquired by the current owner’s father.