11 Purdysburn Village, Ballycowan, Belfast, County Down, BT8 8LJ

11 Purdysburn Village is a one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay end terrace house built around 1830, located in Purdysburn Village to the north of Ballycoan Road in Ballycowan, County Down. It forms part of a symmetrical group of four original Purdysburn Estate worker's houses, of which the two central houses are larger at two bays. The building has group value with the other listed structures in the terrace.

The house is constructed of smooth rendered brick with a pitched roof of natural slate and blue-black clay ridge tiles. Deep overhanging eaves feature exposed rafter ends and painted bargeboards supported on exposed timber corbels. A single rectangular red brick chimney stack with four plain clay pots rises from the west gable.

Windows are predominantly painted lattice casements within square-headed openings with plastered reveals and painted projecting masonry sills. The principal north elevation contains the entrance at the left, a window to the right, and a central dormer window with a natural slate pitched roof and original lattice casement. The rear features replacement uPVC casement windows. The original timber sheeted entrance door remains at north; a replacement uPVC door has been installed at the south. The east gable contains a single replacement window at first floor level. A one-and-a-half-storey return adjoins the building at the left of the rear elevation, with two replacement windows at ground floor and one at first floor on the south gable, and a replacement entrance door on the east elevation. Rainwater goods are replacement uPVC u-profile.

The terrace is situated within Purdysburn village, accessed from the south through modern development with pedestrian access possible from east and west. A small enclosed garden lies to the north, with a concrete driveway and small forecourt to the south-east, enclosed by timber fencing.

Historically, No. 11 appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1834 as one of a terrace of four cottages. The 1833 Ordnance Survey Memoirs record that Purdysburn Village was built at the south wall of the Purdysburn estate, then occupied by landlord Narcissus Batt, as a predominantly Protestant settlement with 120 out of 125 residents of Protestant faith. The 1844 Parliamentary Gazetteer noted the village originally comprised 28 single-storey cottages. Bassett's County Down Directory of 1886 described it as containing about 30 houses occupied chiefly by farm labourers. A newspaper cutting from the Purdysburn Estate collection at Downpatrick Library records that the village was originally constructed to house servants and farm labourers working on the adjoining Purdysburn Estate. The estate had been purchased by Narcissus Batt in 1811; Thomas Hopper constructed three gate lodges there around 1825, suggesting the village may have been built at a similar time, though this cannot be confirmed. Purdysburn House was occupied by the Batt family until its sale in 1895, when it was established as a lunatic asylum. Together with numbers 1 to 10, No. 11 represents one of the original labourers' cottages associated with the estate. In the mid-1970s the village came into the possession of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, which expanded the site with 19 new cottages. A claim by the current owner that the village post office operated from No. 11 cannot be verified; records confirm the post office operated from No. 5 from at least 1877 to 1910, though it may have relocated to No. 11 later in the twentieth century.

The house continues to be occupied and remains in good repair, maintaining its original character and layout. However, recent alterations including replacement doors and uPVC windows have taken place, particularly at the rear and south elevations. The building contributes to the Purdysburn Area of Village Character.