Kinelarty, 2 Drumnaquoile Road, Castlewellan, Co Down

Kinelarty is a one and a half storey, two-bay former waterpipe attendant's house erected around 1900 as part of the Mourne Scheme, by which the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners brought water to Belfast from the Annalong and Kilkeel rivers. It stands on the south side of Drumnaquoile Road in Castlewellan, oriented north-south with its gable facing the road.

The house is constructed in the distinctive and attractive style characteristic of the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners. It is built of squared rubble Silurian stone in irregular courses over a projecting basal course, with contrasting yellow brick used for embellishment. The pitched natural slate roof features a plain painted wooden bargeboards, moulded concrete kneeler stones, and ogee cast-iron gutters. A distinctive red brick chimney with yellow brick stepped quoins and cap rises from the centre of the ridge.

The main facade faces west and is approached by a one-storey porch with a pitched natural slate roof, raised yellow brick verges, and concrete kneelers. Four granite steps lead to a painted tongue-and-groove boarded door with a small electric light above. The porch has a window in its west-facing gable wall. To the right of the porch on the main block wall is a single window opening. All window openings have shallow segmental heads and are trimmed with yellow brick heads and jambs featuring stop-end chamfers. The windows are 2 over 2 timber-framed sliding sashes with chamfered painted cills, probably of concrete. The north gable has two window openings to the ground floor and two to the attic floor aligned with those below. The east wall is largely blank except for a single window to a back room at ground floor level. The south gable is abutted on its left by a single-storey monopitched return running along the inside of the yard's west wall, with window openings to a half landing and back bedroom above.

The house is internally connected to the single-storey return, which provides access to the yard. The rectangular yard projects south and east of the dwelling with its entrance on the north wall. The yard walls are constructed similarly to the main dwelling and trimmed with yellow brick, coped with rock-faced blocks. The original wide entrance now has a smooth render infill with a small pair of painted tongue-and-groove doors inserted. Square masonry gate pillars flank the original opening, each with yellow brick stepped quoins and projecting flat concrete caps. A pair of red-painted wrought-iron vehicle gates and a single pedestrian gate are hung from cast-iron posts with ball heads embossed 'BWC' for Belfast Water Commissioners.

This was one of six identical lodges erected along the conduit; the others are located at Tullybranigan, Ballybannon, Dunmore, Ballykine, and Creevytenant. More substantial water-related dwellings were erected at Silent Valley, Dunnywater, and Knockbreckan. The plans were drawn by L. L. Macassey, Engineer to the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners, and approved by the Board in February 1899. The contract valued at £6806 for erecting all six houses was awarded to Messrs Courtney and Company in November 1899. By April 1901, all were nearing completion and were presumed occupied when the pipeline was officially opened in October that year. The house is cited as a caretaker's house in the 1904 valuation.

The building is of considerable historical interest as part of the complex associated with Belfast's first water supply from the Mournes, and is of industrial archaeological significance. The listing extends to the house, courtyard walling, gates, and gateposts.