3 Dandy Row, Lenaderg, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 4NP

3 Dandy Row is a two-storey single-bay mid-terrace mill workers cottage built around 1868. It stands off Huntley Road near the junction with Lurgan Road, approximately one and a half miles north of Banbridge, County Down.

The building is of square plan with a rear return. The roof is pitched with natural slate and clay ridge tiles, and features a rendered chimney with uPVC replacement rainwater goods. The walling is roughcast cement rendered with an artificial stone plinth. Windows are replacement timber top-hung casements, and the door is a replacement timber example of no particular interest.

The principal elevation faces north and is asymmetrically arranged. The front door is positioned to the left with a single window to the right and a corresponding first-floor window directly above. The left gable abuts the neighbouring building. The rear elevation is completely abutted by a modern full-width two-storey pitched roof return with matching eaves level. This rear return contains a single first-floor picture window and a recessed ground floor with a single picture window and rear door, all of no particular interest. The right gable abuts the adjoining building.

The cottage forms part of a terrace running perpendicular to the main road, accessed via a private drive that terminates at a former school building, now derelict. Associated historic buildings forming part of a cluster group stand immediately to the east and south.

The house has undergone extensive alterations resulting in loss of character and detailing. While its primary interest lies in its relationship with adjacent buildings and in the social and industrial development of the area, it is not among the best examples of its type and has been affected by changes to the remainder of the terrace.

The building was constructed as one of five dwellings serving as workers' housing for Milltown bleach works. The terrace was built by William and John Smyth as part of a self-contained industrial settlement first established in 1820. John Smyth purchased a corn mill and surrounding land from the Crawford family and erected extensive bleaching and finishing works. By 1825 he had built Milltown House, reportedly as a wedding present for his fiancée Anna McClelland. By 1839, John Smyth & Co had become the largest bleaching and finishing works on the Bann, producing 40,000 pieces of cloth annually. Three of John and Anna's twelve children subsequently formed William Smyth & Co Ltd, which eventually employed over 250 people.

The expansion of the business was aided by the railway connections to Scarva (1859) and Lisburn (1863). By 1857 the Smyths owned the Bannville Beetling Mill and supplied customers worldwide, including the USA, Italy, Russia and Germany. An iron foundry was established in 1876, and by 1886 the bleach works and greens covered 220 acres, powered by water with steam as auxiliary, utilising six iron water wheels.

Valuation records show the houses first appearing in the Annual Revision fieldbook of 1864-1878 as newly-built vacant kitchen dwellings valued at £2 10 shillings. The houses appear to have been unfinished initially and, following the addition of returns, were revalued in 1868 at £4 each. By 1868 the majority were occupied, with John Smyth Senior as initial landlord, succeeded by William Smyth & Co Ltd. The first recorded occupier of number three was James McCleary in 1868, followed by Hugh Crawford in 1902 and George Gaskin in 1905. The 1901 census records Hugh Crawford, a linen lapper, living here with his wife and four children. By 1911 George Gaskin, a bleacher, occupied the house with his wife and three-year-old daughter. William Craig followed in 1920. By the First General Revaluation of 1933, the houses were listed as old cottages in fair condition with three bedrooms, a kitchen and scullery, renting at 2 shillings 8 pence weekly.

The mill produced linen until the 1940s. The company entered voluntary liquidation in 1945 following earlier takeover by the Irish Bleachers' Association. Factory buildings were eventually demolished in the 1950s. The house continues in use as a dwelling.