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

Two-storey, two-bay late-Victorian terraced house built around 1892 by an unknown architect. It forms part of a planned row of ten mill workers' dwellings set back from Derrymore Road, the main approach to Bessbrook Village. A two-storey rendered rear return was added around 1995, giving the building an L-shaped plan facing southwest.

The house is constructed of random-coursed rock-faced local Newry Granodiorite stone walling with stepped red brick dressings to the jambs and square-headed gauged-brick door and window openings. The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and angled black clay ridge tiles. Two rectangular-section red brick chimneys, one to the northwest (rebuilt in rustic brick) and one to the southeast, each have four buff clay pots. The eaves are flush with separate red and buff brick courses and an alternating red and buff brick corbel course above. Cast iron rainwater goods with half-round guttering discharge to circular section downpipes; uPVC rainwater goods are fitted to the rear.

The principal elevation faces southwest and is nearly symmetrical with regular fenestration. There are two windows at first-floor level in line with ground-floor openings, all replacement double-hung 1/1 sliding timber sash windows with horns. The ground floor has a window to the northwest side of the door. The modest front yard is laid to lawn and enclosed by dwarf stone walling topped with vertical painted metal railings with pointed finials. A similar foot gate hangs on circular section cast iron posts to the southeast. A path of quarry tiles leads from the gate to a painted timber door with brass furniture and a square-headed fanlight above.

The house is attached to No. 4 Deramore Terrace to the northwest and to No. 6 Deramore Terrace to the southeast. The rear elevation faces northeast and consists of stone walling with top-opening timber casement windows at ground and first-floor levels facing into a narrow concrete yard. The two-storey rendered pitched-roof rear return projects northeast from the southeast end of the elevation and contains a three-part timber casement window at ground-floor level, a similar window at first-floor level in line with it, a uPVC door on the northwest side, and a window to the northwest side of the door with a similar window above at first-floor level. Concrete steps from the rear access route lead to a raised narrow concrete yard, orientated northeast-southwest, which serves the rear return.

Each dwelling in the terrace is set back from the footpath with a modest sized front yard. Rear yards are typically enclosed by random-coursed rubble stone walling with square-headed door openings onto a wide shared rear access route running northwest-southeast. To the northeast of the shared access route, each dwelling has a rear garden; No. 5 has a rectangular rendered garage set in its back garden to lawn. The terrace overlooks parkland associated with Derrymore House to the southwest, with stone walling to the roadside and mature trees.