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

The building is a much-altered, symmetrical, single-storey school dating from the early 20th century (1900-1919), though incorporating a 1845 datestone. It is located on Jonesborough Village Road, Newry, County Armagh. The school has been extensively refurbished internally.

The building is aligned northeast-southwest. It features a hipped natural slate roof with a central gablet to the front pitch, and a slightly advanced eaves course supporting half-round cast-iron rainwater goods. The principal elevation faces northwest. The walls are wet cement-dashed and painted, with an advanced smooth rendered and painted base course; corners have a smooth rendered and painted band. All windows are modern landscape uPVC casements with painted concrete cills.

The central section of the building advances slightly and is flanked by a smooth cement-rendered and painted half-engaged pier on each corner; a three-quarter engaged column with a moulded head and square plinth is positioned centrally between the piers. Immediately behind the central section is a partition wall dividing the recessed area into two sections, each containing a window and a stone-flagged threshold. A slate plaque reading "JONESBOROUGH / NATIONAL SCHOOL / AD1845" is set into the gablet apex. The left and right gables are blank.

The rear elevation includes a central single-storey return, detailed to match the main block with a pitched natural slate roof. The exposed section of the return has two windows to the west end. Formerly containing entrances for girls and boys, the entrance on the northwest face has been blocked and finished to match the main block, while the entrance on the right (southeast) face has a pair of modern glazed timber doors. This return now links to a similarly scaled and detailed modern extension, which is not of interest for listing purposes. A second link block, with a flat roof and two small windows to its eastern elevation, is located towards the east end of the rear elevation of the main block.

The school is set back from the 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 there are several school portacabins to the rear.

A datestone indicates the original school opened in 1845. However, an Ordnance Survey map from 1861 shows no buildings at this location, suggesting the original school was elsewhere in the village. A school is shown at this location on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map, indicating the current building was constructed around that time, incorporating the earlier datestone.