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

No. 9 Purdysburn Village is a one-and-a-half-storey end terrace built around 1830, forming part of a symmetrical group of four worker's cottages associated with the Purdysburn Estate. It is located in Purdysburn Village to the north of Ballycoan Road in Ballycowan.

The building is constructed as a single-bay end terrace with walling of smooth rendered brick. The pitched roof is finished in natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles, deep overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends, and painted bargeboards supported on exposed timber corbels. Two rectangular red brick chimneysstacks are present; that to the west abuts the adjoining No. 8. Rainwater goods are modern replacement uPVC u-profile.

The principal north elevation contains the main entrance at the left, flanked by three equally spaced windows to the right. Windows are painted lattice casements within square-headed openings with plastered reveals and painted projecting masonry sills. Original timber sheeted entrance doors are retained at the north elevation, though the south entrance has been replaced with uPVC. The window to the right is surmounted by a wall-head dormer with natural slate pitched roof and timber bargeboards, while the window to the left is also surmounted by a dormer window with natural slate pitched roof and original lattice casement. The east gable abuts No. 10, and the west gable abuts No. 8.

The rear elevation contains a single-storey return with cat-slide roof, which forms part of this property based on window detailing. The exposed section at left contains two replacement windows. The south gable of the return is blank, and the west cheek contains a replacement timber panelled and glazed door.

The building retains many original external features including original lattice glazed windows and remains largely unchanged from its original form and layout, despite some minor alterations and replacement windows and doors at the south elevation. The house continues in good state of repair and maintains its original plan layout and character.

Purdysburn Village was constructed to house servants and farm labourers working on the adjacent Purdysburn Estate, which was purchased in 1811 by Narcissus Batt. The village first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834 depicted as a terrace of four cottages. The 1833 Ordnance Survey Memoirs record it as a predominantly Protestant settlement with 120 out of 125 residents of Protestant faith. The 1844 Parliamentary Gazetter notes that the village originally consisted of 28 single-storey cottages. By 1886, Bassett's County Down Directory recorded the village as containing about 30 houses occupied chiefly by farm labourers. The Purdysburn Estate continued to be occupied by the Batt family until its sale in 1895, when it was established as a lunatic asylum. In the mid-1970s the village came into the possession of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, which expanded the site with 19 new cottages. The current owner reported that the house was originally a post office, though this has not been verified.

The building is one of the original labourers' cottages associated with the Purdysburn Estate and contributes to the Purdysburn Area of Village Character. It has group value with the other listed buildings in the terrace.

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