McMallons, 26 Drumintee Road, Meigh, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JS

McMallons is a Grade B2 listed building comprising an extended vernacular house with outbuildings, forming an attractive roadside group on a lane off Drumintee Road near Meigh. Although some original details have been lost, it remains a good example of the vernacular cottage type.

The main house is a much-altered two-storey structure of two bays, aligned north to south, with a two-storey outbuilding to the right gable and a single-storey outbuilding to the left gable. The building is finished with painted lime render with a contrasting base course. The pitched roof is covered in natural slate with tile skews, and there are two modern red brick chimneys—one to the left gable and one between the house and outbuilding. Rainwater goods are modern half-round plastic.

The principal elevation faces east. Each bay contains a window to both floors, all modern top-hung casements with painted granite cills. To the right of the left bay is a windbreak porch with a monopitched natural slate roof (some tiles with curved ends) and a modern timber door with glazed top panel. The left and right cheeks of the porch are blank. The left gable is blank and abutted by the single-storey outbuilding. The rear elevation is abutted on the right by a lower annex; the exposed section to the left has a ground-floor window matching those on the façade, and a first-floor window to the left of the right bay—a single fixed-paned light with its head at eaves level. The annex has a monopitched corrugated asbestos roof and rendered, painted walls. Its main west face contains a large 6/6 metal-framed sliding sash, with a modern timber door to its left cheek.

The two-storey outbuilding to the right gable has central tongue-and-groove doors to each floor. Its right gable is abutted by a lower single-storey lean-to; the exposed gable section is blank. The rear elevation is completely abutted by two similarly detailed single-storey lean-to outbuildings. Between these lean-tos is a set of nine granite steps rising to a tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door at upper level. Both lean-tos have whitewashed rubble stone walls. The right lean-to is L-shaped with corrugated metal roof and concrete skews; its west face has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to the left and a small window to the right, and its north face has a door opening to the left and a tiny fixed-pane window to the right. The left lean-to has a fixed-pane window to the centre of its west face and a tongue-and-groove door to its left (north) cheek. The lower single-storey lean-to has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to its east face, with all other faces blank.

The single-storey outbuilding to the left gable is detailed as the house with a brick chimney to its left gable. The façade has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door set to the right; to its left is a 1/1 fixed-paned window with no cill. Its left gable is abutted by a lower monopitched garage of no architectural interest. The rear elevation has a single top-hung casement window to the centre.

The house is set back from Drumintee Road with an asphalt area to the front and small garden to the rear. The garden contains a cast-iron water pump bearing a flag maker's mark.

Historical evidence indicates that whilst a building stood on this site in 1835 and 1861, it was not aligned as the present structure. The current building first appears on the 1906–07 Ordnance Survey map. An 1862 Valuation described the earlier house as vacant and dilapidated. Its valuation increased from 10 shillings to £1 5s 0d in 1885, and further increased to £2 in 1907 when outbuildings were added. The present building would therefore appear to date from the mid-1880s.