Jonesborough Primary School, 54 Jonesborough Village, Newry, Co. Armagh, BT35 8HP

A much-altered symmetrical 19thC single-storey school aligned NE-SW along the Jonesborough Village Road. Hipped natural slate roof with central gablet to front pitch. Slightly advanced eaves course supports half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. Principal elevation faces NW. Walls are wet cement-dashed and painted with advanced smooth rendered and painted basecourse; corners have a smooth rendered and painted band. All windows are modern landscape uPVC casements with painted concrete cills. The central section advances slightly and is flanked by a smooth cement rendered and painted half-engaged pier to each corner; to centre is a three-quarter engaged column with moulded head and square plinth. Immediately behind is a partition wall separating recessed section into two; each with a window and stone flagged threshold. Set in gablet apex is a slate plaque reading “JONESBOROUGH/ NATIONAL SCHOOL/ AD1845”. Left and right gables are blank. The rear elevation has a central single-storey return, detailed as main block with pitched natural slate roof. The exposed section has two windows to W end. Each face of the return formerly contained a girls’ and boys’ entrance; however that to the left (NW) face has been blocked up and finished as main block and that to the right has a pair of modern glazed timber doors. This return now forms a link with a similarly scaled and detailed modern extension (of no interest). Towards the E end of the rear elevation of the main block is a second link block with a window in exposed right end. The link block has a flat roof and two small windows to E elevation. Setting The school is set back from the main road and enclosed by a cement-rendered wall with modern railings and gates supported on granite piers with chamfered copings. The schoolyard is tarmacadam and to rear are a number of school portacabins.