Tirsah, Church Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AQ is a Grade D1 Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. 2 related planning applications.

Tirsah, Church Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AQ

WRENN ID
gentle-tallow-umber
Grade
D1 Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Newry, Mourne and Down
Constituency
Newry and Armagh MP: Dáire Hughes (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Address
Tirsah, Church Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AQ, BT35 7AQ
Irish grid reference
J 046 285
Coordinates
54.19544, -6.39735
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

The building, originally known as Tirsah, was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. It has since been demolished and rebuilt as a shop and café, now known as the Beehive Enterprise Centre. This record reflects observations made during the Second Survey. A small, open public garden, named 'SHELTER and TIRSAH', remains. The southern entrance features smooth rendered dwarf walling with rounded stone coping, topped by painted hooped metal railings. The capstones of the square-section entrance pillars display the name 'TIRSAH'. Decorative cast iron pillars support timber pergolas above paved walkways on the north, west, and east sides of the garden, with a central lawn area. A datestone on the north wall records that the garden was erected in 1911 for the people of Bessbrook in memory of Helena and Jane Marion Richardson, by James N. Richardson. The garden is now owned by the Bessbrook Development Company.

Local climate

Tirsah, Church Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AQ receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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