74 Ballymageogh Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4SX

This is a single-storey, three-bay vernacular house located on Ballymageogh Road, Kilkeel, Newry, County Down. It was likely constructed between 1820 and 1839. The house is aligned parallel to, but set well back from, the west side of the road. It has a pitched roof covered in natural slate, with blue clay ridges and verge tiles. Two rendered and coped chimneys are present, one on each party wall. There are no rainwater goods. The walls are rendered and painted; the main facade is obscured by a decorative hedge. The east-facing main facade features an entrance set within a gabled porch to the left of the central bay, with a pitched natural slate roof, plain painted timber bargeboards, and rendered walls. The porch cheeks are plain, and the door is painted t+g (tongue and groove) sheeted. A single 2/2 sliding sash window is present in each bay, with painted granite cills; the left gable has a single modern metal casement window with a granite cill, while the right gable is blank. The rear elevation is abutted to the left by an outhouse and to the centre by two lean-to returns. The right bay is blank. The outhouse is rectangular in plan, with a pitched slate roof gabled to the rear and hipped where it joins the house. Its walls are rendered, and it has a single t+g sheeted door on the rear gable. The lean-to extensions have corrugated asbestos roofs; the gable of the main block has a metal window, and a t+g sheeted door is located on the left side. A single-storey outhouse runs parallel with the house in the rear yard, featuring a pitched natural slate roof, rendered walls, and painted t+g sheeted timber doors. A small, hedge-enclosed garden is situated to the front of the house. A building is depicted at this location on an Ordnance Survey map of 1834, and it was not mentioned in the 1838 Valuation records, suggesting a valuation of less than £5.