160 Dublin Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RN

This is a much altered vernacular cottage, likely built between 1800 and 1819. It is located on the east side of Dublin Road in Newry, within the townland of Fathom Lower.

The house is a single storey, four bay structure aligned north-south. It has a pitched roof covered with natural slate, although the right end is finished with asbestos slates. Brick chimneys are situated between bays one and two, and bays three and four, as viewed from the west. Metal rainwater goods are half-round. The exterior walls are cement rendered and painted, featuring a chamfered base course and stepped quoins on each elevation. All windows are modern timber top-hung casements, with painted reveals and painted concrete cills, except where otherwise noted.

The principal, west-facing elevation includes a gabled windbreak porch to the right with a pitched natural slate roof and decorative timber bargeboards. The main facade is decoratively painted and contains a modern glazed timber door, flanked by blank cheeks and a single window to the left. The extreme left bay features two windows, the left one being a narrow 1x3 casement. Bays three and four each have a single window centered in the bay. The left gable is abutted by a lower addition with a corrugated metal roof and a cement rendered skew on the exposed gable. There is a tongue-and-groove door on the front elevation to the right. The rear elevation is cement rendered and unpainted, with a modern door to the left and a window in each bay. These rear windows are 1x3 metal-framed casements, with the exception of the window at the extreme left end, which is a 1/2 size, with a rendered reveal. A modern timber door with a corrugated plastic awning is set within the left side of the extreme right bay. The right gable is blank.

A building is depicted on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map, described as a small, single-storey building similar in size to the current structure, although possibly shorter in length. Its value in the 1862 valuation was recorded as £1.5s.0d, with no subsequent changes. It likely achieved its present length by 1862. The house is set back from the road by a well-maintained hedged garden to the front and has a small, elevated garden to the rear.