3 Maytown Terrace, Fountain St., Bessbrook, Co.Armagh

Two-storey two-bay late-Victorian mill workers terraced dwelling, built of local stone in c.1896 to designs by an unknown architect. L-plan form facing northwest having a single storey rear return. No. 3 Maytown Terrace forms part of a terrace comprising seven similar houses (HB16/22/018A-G) which front onto Main Street, Bessbrook, and are set back from the road by a wide tarmac public footpath. Generally random-coursed rock-faced local Newry Granodiorite walling with stepped red brick dressings to jambs, stone cills and square-headed gauged-brick door and window opes. Pitched fibre cement tile roof with angled terracotta clay ridge tiles. Rectangular-section red brick chimney to NE has two terracotta clay pots; similar chimney to SW with a single black pot. Flush eaves with separate red and buff brick eaves courses and an alternating red and buff brick corbel course above. Generally cast metal RWGs to front and uPVC to rear; half-round guttering discharging to circular section downpipes. Principal elevation The front elevation faces NW and is flush with the rest of the terrace. It is near symmetrical having a regular fenestration pattern; two windows to FF level in line with GF openings, all windows having double hung sliding timber sash windows with horns and reduced size top panes. Four panelled painted timber door, with brass furniture and a square-headed fanlight above, opens onto the public footpath. Window to NE side of door. Northeast elevation To the NE the building is attached to No. 2 Maytown Terrace (HB16/22/018B). Southeast elevation Rear elevation faces SE into an open concrete yard having a top opening timber casement window to centre of FF level, a three part timber casement window to GF level and a single storey monopitched roof rear return at NE which extends to SE boundary. Rear return has a panelled painted timber door and a top opening casement window, both to its SW side. No other openings visible. Elevation and return have a cement render finish. Southwest To the SW the building is attached to No. 4 Maytown Terrace (HB16/22/018D). Setting Maytown Terrace is a row of seven similar mill workers dwellings (HB16/22/018A-G) situated along Main Street, Bessbrook. Rear facades are generally much altered with most of the dwellings along the terrace having lost their original stone rear yard boundary walls. Rear boundaries are defined by a local access route and an area of rough grazing to the SE. Materials: Roof: Fibre cement RWGs: Metal and uPVC Walling: Newry Granodiorite Windows: Timber sash and timber casements