33 Greencastle Pier Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4DE

A small vernacular settlement comprising four domestic buildings and associated outstructures, positioned up a lane on the north side of Greencastle Pier Road.

Building A

A two-storey, three-bay vernacular farmhouse with a south-facing façade, located at the west end of the group. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate to the centre and right bays, while the left bay (a later addition) is artificially slated. The natural slate rear pitch is in poor condition. The right gable features a cement fillet, and the left has a plain slated verge. Four corbelled rendered chimneys are positioned one to each gable and on either side of the central bay. There are no rainwater goods.

The walls to the centre and right bays are harled and whitewashed; the left bay is painted smooth cement rendered. At the left side of the central bay is a shallow windbreak porch with walls matching the façade and a natural slate monopitched roof, containing a sheeted and painted door. To its right is a 2/2 exposed box sliding sash window with a painted granite cill. A similar window exists to the right bay at ground floor level. At first floor, similar windows are positioned above each ground floor opening. The ground floor of the left bay has a pair of 1/1 sliding sashes set into a single opening, with a matching pair above. The left gable is abutted at ground floor by a lean-to outbuilding with a monopitched natural slate roof, painted wet dashed walls, a front door, and a boarded-up rear window.

The rear elevation is abutted to the centre and left bays by a lean-to return with a monopitched natural slate roof, cement verge, and no rainwater goods. This structure has whitewashed random rubble walls, a small window opening at the right end of the yard-facing wall, and doorways at either end. The exposed left end has a small boarded-up window opening. The central bay's remaining wall has a similar opening. The right bay is painted smooth render with single boarded-up window openings on each floor. The right gable is blank and abutted on its right side by a red brick outshot with a slate roof, harled walls, and no openings.

A small pig house with rubble walls, natural slate roof, and an enclosed pen to its east gable stands further west along the lane. The front of the main house opens onto the lane, with a rear yard enclosed by single storey outbuildings.

Building B

A single-storey outbuilding (animal house) aligned east-west, positioned across the lane to the east-north-east of the main house. It has a pitched asbestos slate roof with cement verges. The walls are constructed of granite and shalestone rubble, with the front wall being of noticeably superior quality. The south-facing front wall contains two sheeted doors in separate openings and a pair of similar doors at the right end. The left gable features a sheeted loft door with a small shuttered opening below. The rear wall has a small shuttered opening at the right-hand end. The right gable is abutted by a rubble stone lean-to extension with a monopitched natural slate roof, rubble walls, and a sheeted door; the gable above is obscured by vegetation.

Building C

A two-storey, two-bay vernacular farmhouse with a third single-storey, single-bay wing. The pitched natural slate roof has tiled verges and corbelled eaves. Projecting rendered chimneys are positioned to each gable, and there are no gutters. The walls are rubble stone, harled (though harling is absent in places) and washed with an ochre-coloured finish.

The north-facing front elevation contains the main entrance to the right bay, set within a shallow windbreak porch with a monopitched natural slate roof, walls matching the façade, and a sheeted door. Immediately to its right is a small rectangular sheeted window without a cill. The ground floor left bay has two boarded-up window openings at its left end. Two four-paned windows without cills are positioned at first floor level. The left gable has a single large boarded-up window opening at first floor.

The rear elevation of the main block has a 1930s glazed and panelled door at centre, a boarded window to the right, and a similar opening to the left, both windows having brick jambs. The right bay is blank and abutted at ground floor by a single-storey wing with a pitched natural slate roof and walls matching the main block. This wing has two brick-dressed window openings on its front elevation (larger than those on the main block), one on its end gable and another on its right cheek.

The house fronts the lane, with a rear garden enclosed by rubble walls and accessed by a gate abutting the right bay.

Building D

A two-storey, three-bay vernacular farmhouse, the most easterly of the four buildings. The pitched natural slate roof has cement verges and rendered chimneys to each gable, with a third positioned between the second and third bays. Projecting eaves support half-round cast iron gutters. The walls are harled over random rubble.

All original window openings have painted granite cills; those fitted with steel casements have been widened and given concrete cills. The entrance is to the left on the central bay, with a sheeted door set within a single-storey lean-to windbreak porch having a monopitched natural slate roof and walls matching the main block. To its right is a 2/2 sliding sash window with horns and a painted granite cill. A similar window opening exists on the ground floor of the right bay, though the sashes have been removed. The left bay has a steel casement window. At first floor, there is one window on each bay, all steel side-hung metal casements aligned above the corresponding ground floor windows. The left gable has a small steel casement to the rear at ground floor.

The rear elevation has, on its right bay, a flight of cement-rendered steps abutting at right angles and serving a sheeted timber door at first floor. The central bay has one window opening at ground floor and two at first floor. The right bay is blank, with walls heavily overgrown. The right gable is blank and abutted by a monolithic granite gate pier.

The small front garden has been cleared of vegetation and walling. Two ruinous single-storey outbuildings enclose a rear yard. Within the rear garden stands a dry latrine with rubble walls and a monopitched natural slate roof.