17 Cloghinny Road, Forkhill, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 9RY

A single-storey/ three bay vernacular dwelling with one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding to right gable, aligned W-E on a lane to the N of Cloghinny Road. Pitched natural slate roof with brick chimney to left gable and at party wall between bays 1 and 2 (from left). Rainwater goods are gone. Walls are whitewashed rubble stone. All windows are top-hung timber casements with concrete cills. Principal elevation faces S. Left and right bays each have a window to centre. Central bay has a window to left (slightly taller than others) and a windbreak porch to right. Porch has a natural slate cat-slide roof and a t+g sheeted door to front face. Right and left cheeks are blank. Left gable is blank. Rear elevation has a window at right on central bay. Right gable is completely abutted by the adjoining one-and-a-half-storey outbuilding, detailed as house with brick chimney to left gable. All openings are t+g sheeted. S elevation has a central door to ground floor with a window opening to first floor. The exposed left gable is blank. Rear elevation has a door to upper level, accessed by twelve external granite steps. Its right gable is abutted by a single storey (similarly detailed) shed. Exposed section is blank. Shed has central door to S elevation and is abutted to extreme right end by a whitewashed boundary wall. Right gable is blank. Rear elevation has a timber shuttered window with granite cill. Setting To front is a small domestic yard completely enclosed by a whitewashed rubble stone boundary wall with cement rendered coping (this is broken by outbuildings to either end). The yard is accessed by wrought-iron gates to N and W of site, and a metal farm gate to E – all supported on either square-in-section or circular-in-section gate piers with cement pyramidal/conical copings. To rear is a similarly detailed single-storey dwelling; a number of outbuildings and a rubble stone well (others now in poor condition).