59 Seavers Road, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8RD

59 Seavers Road, Newry

This is an attractive group of vernacular buildings located within the Slieve Gullion Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The ensemble comprises a single-storey, three-bay vernacular house aligned northeast to southwest, together with several outbuildings, and retains all its original features.

The main house has a pitched roof with three lime-rendered skews—one to each gable (the right gable skew is raised) and one between the left and middle bays. A single lime-rendered chimney stands between these latter skews. The left bay is natural slated; the remaining two bays are felted, formerly thatched. There are no rainwater goods. The walls are lime-rendered random rubble.

The principal elevation faces southeast. The left bay contains a single 1/1 sliding sash window with a painted granite cill. The centre bay has a 2/2 fixed-pane window with an irregular painted fieldstone cill, positioned to the left, and a windbreak porch to the right. The porch has a pitched natural slate roof, a tongue-and-groove sheeted half-door, and blank cheeks to left and right. The third bay has a tongue-and-groove sheeted door opening into a byre. The left gable is blank. The rear elevation has a small ventilation opening to the byre. The right gable is abutted by a lower outbuilding with walls matching the house, a lean-to felt roof (partially collapsed), a tongue-and-groove sheeted door to its front (southeast) face, a blank right cheek, and a tiny single window opening with mesh wiring to its rear elevation.

To the front of the house, abutting its left end, is a group of four single-storey outbuildings, all constructed in whitewashed random rubble facing northeast. The main outbuilding has a pitched corrugated tin roof and a tongue-and-groove sheeted door set to the right; its rear elevation is plain with two ventilation openings below eaves level. The right shed, abutted to the main outbuilding's right gable, has a monopitched corrugated tin roof with a large opening to its northeast face and a blank rear elevation. The left shed, abutted to the main outbuilding's left gable, has an irregular pitched natural slate roof, a door opening set to the right of its northeast face, and a blank rear elevation. A utility block abuts the left shed's left gable; it has a flat (slightly sloping) corrugated tin roof, faces southeast, and contains two tongue-and-groove sheeted doors. To the southeast of the site is a small cart house with a monopitched felted roof, an irregular segmental-headed opening to its front (southwest) face, three ventilation openings to its rear elevation, and a small fixed-pane window to its right gable. A small toilet block (of no architectural interest) abuts the cart house's left gable.

The property is approached by a lane with rubble stone boundary walls. The entrance is marked by a pair of lime-rendered, square-section rubble stone gate piers with eyebrow granite coping, supporting a pair of wrought iron gates.

The building is documented on Ordnance Survey maps from 1835 onwards. Its rateable valuation in 1835 was less than £5. From 1862 onwards, its valuation remained constant at £1. The building was likely constructed between 1800 and 1819. The listing extends to the building, outbuildings, walling, gates, and gate piers.