The Grange, Mourne Park Estate, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4LB

The Grange at Mourne Park Estate is a model farm of special interest for its historical association with the Mourne Park demesne, where it played a key economic role.

The complex comprises an extensive range of buildings constructed in granite with machined-brick dressings, arranged around two yards. The majority of the structures are now derelict, with only the two houses at the southern end of the range remaining substantially intact.

The south-eastern house mirrors the south-western house in most respects, but differs in having four windows to each floor across two bays on its front elevation. Machined brick is used throughout for dressings. The left elevation is blank and has been abutted by a derelict single-storey link block connecting it to the south-western house. A tall red-brick chimney rises from the eaves. The rear elevation is abutted to the left by a ruinous two-storey stable block that once shared its roof. The ground floor has two 6/6 sliding sash windows flanking a central door (appearing to be the only entrance) with a smaller 1/1 sliding sash to the right. The first floor contains an identical 1/1 sliding sash and a 6/6 sliding sash directly above the door. The connecting link block is four openings wide, with a monopitched corrugated asbestos roof, a door in the third opening from the left, and tall brick casements in the remaining openings. The right-hand elevation has been rendered and is blank except for a small modern casement window at first-floor right.

Historical development maps the complex's evolution across the 19th century. The 1834 Ordnance Survey map shows buildings around all four sides of yard one only. The existing stable block and calf houses may date from this period. The 1858 map shows similar configuration with infilling at the south-west corner of the yard. By 1901, yard one had taken its present form, including the tack room, and yard two had been established. The use of machined brick in the two southern houses indicates a major rebuilding phase during the second half of the 19th century. The two houses, carriage house to the east of the stable block, and tack room were all erected at this time. All yard two buildings date from the later 19th century. Roof slates were stripped from the outbuildings several years ago.