Former Kinghill National School, on junction of Hilltown Road and Kinghill Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5EZ

Single storey symmetrical schoolhouse, standing derelict in schoolyard on south-west side of Hilltown Road/ Kinghill Road junction. Shallow hipped natural slate roof is aligned NE-SW. Terracotta ridges, deep overhanging eaves course and no gutters. Walls are lined lime render, with stepped quoins to facade. Front elevation faces NW. To centre is a recessed granite plaque, stating "(first line obscured) / National School / AD 1834". There are four equally spaced window openings. Each contains a pair of 1/1 sliding sashes, all with exposed boxes, horns, and dressed granite cills. Over each is a hood mould with plain stops. Left elevation is blank and completely abutted to ground floor by a single storey porch. Porch has a lean-to natural slate roof, with a raised parapet to front wall (which is set back from that of main block). Its walls are as main block, its front wall has a single doorway (door gone). Its left cheek has a single central window opening with granite cill. Its rear wall has a door to a tiny enclosed yard. The rear elevation of main block is rendered and has no eaves course. It has four window openings: all contain 2/2 sliding sashes with security bars over. Abutting G/F left and right are small ruinous lean-to latrine blocks. Each is served by a door which leads to the tiny yard at back of each porch. Latrine blocks had lean-to roofs with a small window on rear wall. Right gable has an identical porch to that on the left gable, although its rear yard is roofed with corrugated asbestos. Setting Small front school yard is enclosed from road by spear-headed railings on a chamfered plinth with granite one piece posts to left and right and a second post framing a pedestrian gateway to NE end.