84 Killowen Old Road, Killowen, Rostrevor, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3AE

84 Killowen Old Road is a predominantly single storey post-war house with a partly two-storey main block, situated on an elevated site overlooking Carlingford Lough. The setting is mature, featuring a rocky outcrop to the front garden, a winding path (an original feature), and a sweeping driveway (a later addition, as the original drive stopped at the foot of the hill). A modern bungalow has been constructed on low ground to the front on the former tennis court.

The property consists of four abutting blocks. The main block faces south-east and is abutted at the north-east by a kitchen block. An accommodation block abuts the south-west side of the main block. A fourth block is a recent extension abutting the right gable of the kitchen block.

All blocks have pitched concrete tiled roofs, originally cedar shingled, with overhanging plain painted timber eaves and bargeboards and sheeted soffits. Rainwater goods are semicircular plastic. Modern double-glazed skylights to the rear pitch of the main and accommodation blocks replace the original two-paned skylights. All roof ridges run south-west to north-east. On the main block, the two-storey high ridge falls to a single storey at the rear. Two chimneys are present: one to the rear pitch of the main block and another to the left gable of the kitchen block, each painted smooth rendered with projecting concrete coping.

Walls are painted smooth cement render, although the main facade of the main block was originally cedar wood shingled. All windows have a canted double course of brown tiles forming cills, except the south elevation of the main block which has concrete cills. All windows have plain reveals and are stained hardwood replacements unless otherwise stated.

The main entrance is set within a porch on the south-east front elevation of the kitchen block, with its left cheek abutting the right gable of the main block and a door leading through to the main block. The porch rests on a plinth of brown tiles with overhang to each of its approach steps. Below the steps is a dog kennel accessed on the right cheek of the retaining wall. The porch roof is a continuation of the kitchen roof, constructed in plastic double glazing. Its right cheek has three vertical panes and its south-east face consists of two large glazed modern sliding doors, originally a single glazed door with a large fixed glass panel to the left.

On the facade of the main block are identical large horizontal window openings to each floor. The ground floor window has four equal fixed panes, originally six with those at each end having top-hung transoms. The first floor window has three fixed panes. The right gable of the main block is obscured totally by mature creeper. At ground floor to the front left of the porch is a four-paned casement window. Above and to the left are two small windows, separated by a rendered mullion but with a common cill. Windows on both floors are set to the right of the roof ridge; there are no openings to its left.

The left gable of the main block is abutted to the rear of its roof ridge by the gable of the accommodation block. The exposed wall to the front has a painted sheeted oak door and two square windows to ground floor and two two-paned windows to first floor. On the wall at first floor level are six projecting tapering concrete posts with wire holes, forming a pergola.

The accommodation block has three sets of three-paned windows to the front elevation. There is a similar window to the rear side of the left gable. The wall of this gable continues to the front as a windbreak, enclosing a grassed area to the left of the main block. The rear elevation of the accommodation block has two similar windows to the left side and a narrower two-paned window to the right.

The back wall of the main block has a horizontal window broken into five casements in painted timber, which appear original. Its exposed right cheek has a single taller casement window.

The right gable of the kitchen block (as viewed from the rear) is abutted to the right by the main block and to the left has three very narrow horizontal windows. That to the right has been enlarged with the cill lowered and replaced, and those to the left have single fixed panes. The back wall of the kitchen block is devoid of openings.

The remaining gable is abutted in line with the roof ridge by a recent extension. On the wall to its right is a linear opening from floor to eaves with a modern multi-panelled stained timber door and fixed transom over. Originally there was a windbreak to this door, now gone. The extension is gabled with a rendered base course and vertical plastic double glazing.

Free-standing to the right is a rendered flat-roofed outbuilding running parallel with the kitchen block.