'Labourers' Cottages', 58-62 Bryansford Village, Ballyhafry, Newcastle, BT33 0PT is a Grade B2 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 11 July 1977. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
'Labourers' Cottages', 58-62 Bryansford Village, Ballyhafry, Newcastle, BT33 0PT
- WRENN ID
- fallow-arch-dale
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1977
- Type
- Cottages
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Labourers' Cottages is a picturesque single-storey-over-basement terrace of around 1820, located in Bryansford Village. The building displays mild Elizabethan overtones and features large projecting gabled porches. Although the terrace appears to consist of four dwellings, the structure to the east end was originally built as an outbuilding serving the large former dower house immediately adjacent. The three actual dwellings have since been amalgamated into a single property.
The north-facing front façade is asymmetrical and single storey. To the right stands a large gabled double porch. The west face of the porch contains the front door, now disused, accessed by a short flight of steps. The decorative newel post's upper portion has been removed. The east face of the porch is now blank, with the door to No. 60 blocked. The north face of the porch features a pair of tall narrow sash windows with moulded drip and label stops, surmounted by a tall narrow arrow slit opening. To the right of the porch is a sash window without astragals, topped by a small dormer-like gable feature with a decorative drip moulding and label stops. To the left of the porch are two mullioned tripartite sash windows with drip mouldings and dormer gable features. Further left is a single porch with one central sash window with drip moulding. At the far left are two double sash windows with central mullions and moulded drips; both are blind. The door to the west face has been blocked, though the steps remain. The west and east gables are blank, except the east gable where a flat-roofed garage obscures the lower level.
The ground slopes away to the south, where the entire block becomes two-storey. The south façade now functions as the de facto entrance. At ground and basement level on the far left is a sash window with vertical mullion, followed by a modern hipped-roof timber porch. To the right are five windows: the first four have sash frames with vertical astragals, while the fifth has a casement frame. Windows Nos. 2 and 5, being wider, appear to be former rear door openings. At first-floor level on the left is a high-level modern window, followed by five randomly spaced sash windows. To the far right of the façade is a wall dividing the gardens of No. 56 (the outbuilding) and Nos. 58–62. The south façade of No. 56 has a central timber-sheeted door with plain glazed fanlight at first floor, accessed by a concrete stair with steel hand rail, and flanked by tall arrow slit window openings. At ground floor are double timber-sheeted doors with a garage door opening to the far right.
The entire façade is rendered and painted. Raised letters reading "Labourers Cottages" appear on the front façade in a typeface of around 1915. The roof is covered in natural slate with a slight overhang and plain barges. Three rendered chimney stacks are present; all are low in proportion and lack distinction, suggesting they were originally much taller. Most rainwater goods are cast iron. The rear garden wall retains a now-blocked arched gate opening, apparently providing access from the labourers' cottages to the outbuilding when No. 54 served as a dower house.
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