2 Deramore (Derrymore) Terrace, Bessbrook, Co.Armagh

Two-storey, two-bay late-Victorian terraced house, built around 1892 to designs by an unknown architect. It forms part of a planned row of ten mill workers' dwellings on the north-east side of Derrymore Road in Bessbrook, set back from the road with a modest front yard.

The house is constructed of random-coursed rock-faced local Newry Granodiorite stone with stepped red brick dressings to jambs and square-headed gauged-brick door and window openings. It has an L-plan form facing south-west with a later single-storey rear return. The pitched natural slate roof is finished with angled black clay ridge tiles and flush eaves comprising separate red and buff brick eaves courses with an alternating red and buff brick corbel course above. The north-west chimney (now rendered) has two terracotta clay pots and a single buff clay pot; the south-east chimney (rebuilt in modern brick) has three terracotta clay pots. Rainwater goods are generally metal or cast iron to the front, with galvanized half-round guttering discharging to cast iron circular section downpipes, and uPVC guttering to the rear.

The principal south-west facing elevation is nearly symmetrical with regular fenestration: two windows at first-floor level aligned with ground-floor openings, all being double-hung 1/1 sliding timber sash windows with horns and margin panes. A window to the north-west side of the door provides additional ground-floor light. The front door is a polished sheeted timber half-door with a glazed panel to the centre of the top section, brass furniture, and a square-headed fanlight with margin panes above. It is fronted by an open painted timber trellised pitched-roof porch. The modest gravelled front yard is enclosed by dwarf stone walling topped by vertical painted metal railings with pointed finials, with a similar foot gate hung on circular section cast iron posts to the south-east. A quarry tile path leads from the gate to the porch.

The building is attached to No. 1 Deramore Terrace to the north-west and No. 3 Deramore Terrace to the south-east. The north-east facing rear elevation is partially obscured but shows a single-storey rendered extension with a monopitched corrugated metal roof projecting into an enclosed rear yard. The original stone walling is visible with a uPVC window at first-floor level and a painted smooth cement render finish to the ground floor. Random-coursed rock-faced local stone boundary walling encloses the rear yard, with a sheeted timber door to the south-east providing access from the rear access route.

Each dwelling in the terrace has a rear yard typically enclosed by random-coursed rubble stone walling opening onto a wide shared rear access route oriented north-west to south-east, accessed at both ends of the terrace. The rear of No. 2 comprises an undeveloped open area of rough grazing with some gravelled sections, north-east of the shared access route. The terrace overlooks parkland associated with Derrymore House to the south-west, with stone walling to the roadside and mature trees.