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

Number 10 Purdysburn Village is a one-and-a-half-storey, single-bay end terrace built around 1830, located in Purdysburn Village to the north of Ballycoan Road in Ballycowan, Belfast.

The house forms part of a symmetrical group of four estate worker's cottages of similar style and detailing, with the two central houses being larger. It is one of the original labourers' cottages associated with the Purdysburn Estate, which was purchased by Narcissus Batt in 1811. The village was established to house servants and farm labourers employed on the estate. The contemporary Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1833 record that Purdysburn Village was a predominantly protestant settlement with 120 out of 125 residents of protestant faith. The 1844 Parliamentary Gazetter notes that the village originally comprised 28 single-storey cottages, and by 1886 Bassett's County Down Directory recorded approximately 30 houses occupied chiefly by farm labourers. The building appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map for the Parish of Drumbo in 1834. In the mid-1970s, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive acquired the village and expanded it with 19 new cottages.

Externally, the house retains many original features including original lattice glazed casement windows within square-headed openings with plastered reveals and painted projecting masonry sills. The roof is pitched with natural slate and blue or black clay ridge tiles, with deep overhanging eaves supported by exposed rafter ends and painted bargeboards on exposed timber corbels. Walling is smooth rendered. A single rectangular red brick chimney stack is visible. Rainwater goods are replacement uPVC u-profile. The north elevation contains the principal entrance at centre, with a ground-floor window to the left surmounted by a wall-head dormer with natural slate pitched roof and timber bargeboards, and a ground-floor window to the right surmounted by a dormer window with natural slate roof, each containing an original lattice glazed casement. The rear elevation features a single-storey lean-to boiler house and replacement windows and doors. Minor alterations include replacement uPVC windows and doors at the south elevation.

Despite these alterations, the house retains much architectural and historic interest, contributing to the Area of Village Character. It continues to be occupied and is in good repair, maintaining its original character and layout. The building has group value with the other listed buildings in the terrace. Local oral history indicates a shop formerly operated from the ground floor, though no evidence of this use survives.

The setting comprises an enclosed garden to the north, a concrete driveway and small forecourt to the south enclosed by timber fence, with vehicular access through modern development and pedestrian access possible at east and west.