10 Drumboniff Rd, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5RE

10 Drumboniff Road is a single storey vernacular house with associated outbuildings, aligned north-south on the east side of Drumboniff Road near Rathfriland. The house is constructed in three bays with a single bay outbuilding to the left. Dating from the early 19th century (shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map), it exemplifies rural Ulster building practice of the period.

The left bay has a pitched natural slate roof with a slightly higher ridge height, a concrete block chimney on the left gable, and a brick eaves course but no rainwater goods. The adjoining slightly lower outhouse also has a pitched natural slate roof without rainwater goods or eaves course.

The right two bays, which appear to be the earliest part of the structure, are covered with a pitched corrugated asbestos roof with a concrete skew to the right and raised wallhead to the left. The render at the wall head differs from that on the main wall, suggesting this section was originally thatched. It retains semicircular metal rainwater goods, though the downpipe is missing. A concrete chimney stands at the party wall between these two bays.

All external walls are constructed from lime-rendered random rubble, painted with a painted base course. The central bay contains a sheeted door with a half-door and cottage latch set into a windbreak. This windbreak has a pitched corrugated asbestos roof, rendered concrete blockwork walls, and a two-pane glazed window (partially missing) to the left cheek, with a blank right cheek. The interior features a granite paved floor, tongue-and-groove sheeted ceiling, and bargeboards.

Windows vary across the house. The central bay has a small 6/3 sash window without a cill on the windbreak's left wall. The right bay contains a larger 4/4 sash window to the left of centre, also without a cill. The left bay, appearing to be a later addition, has a large 2/2 vertically-divided sliding sash window with horns, brick dressings, and a concrete cill.

The outbuilding to the left has a sheeted door at a lower level than those serving the house, with a timber lintel, and a small vent with tongue-and-groove shutters to its right. The left gable of the outhouse contains a rotten sheeted loading door set in the gable with a concrete blockwork step up from the rear. The rear wall matches the front elevation in style, though the outbuildings are built in rounded fieldstones with blank rear elevations.

The rear elevation shows further window variation. The left bay has a small fixed window to the extreme left (a later cement-rendered addition) and a boarded-over sash window to its right. The central bay contains a much-altered opening with a small 1/1 sliding sash window with a timber lintel and brick cill. The right bay has a larger 1/1 window without a cill.

A small front yard is enclosed to the north and south-west by single storey outbuildings built in granite rubble. The northern outbuilding has a natural slate roof and two sheeted doors facing the yard, with a single window opening to the rear. Its west (road-facing) gable is blank, and its east gable is abutted by a smaller lean-to outbuilding with a corrugated roof. The south-west outbuilding is aligned north-south with a pitched corrugated tin roof and two sheeted doors to the yard. At its south-west corner stands a similar smaller outbuilding.

The road frontage is marked by a pair of flat iron gates on decorative cement-rendered piers with pyramidal caps, set within a small concave sweep of painted rubble walling.