5 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. 5 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 black clay ridge tiles. Rectangular-section red brick chimney to NE has two buff clay pots; similar chimney to SW (rebuilt in rustic brick) has two terracotta clay pots. Flush eaves with separate red and buff brick eaves courses and an alternating red and buff brick corbel course above. Generally cast iron 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. Panelled painted timber door opens onto the public footpath having an elliptical shaped glazed section to its top half and a square-headed fanlight above. Window to NE side of door. Northeast elevation To the NE the building is attached to No. 4 Maytown Terrace (HB16/22/018D). Southeast elevation Limited access to rear SE facing elevation but, where visible, consists of a single storey rear return, with a timber decked terrace to its flat roof, which projects from SW end of elevation into enclosed rear yard at SE. Area of yard to NE of rear return is covered with a monopitched corrugated Perspex roof. There is a glazed uPVC door visible to centre of FF level which opens onto a roof deck cnclosed by wire fencing supported on timber posts; top opening uPVC casement window to NE side of door. Yard boundary wall at SE has a smooth cement render finish with a painted sheeted timber door leading from rear access route. Elevation has a similar finish and rear return has painted render finish. Southwest To the SW the building is attached to No. 6 Maytown Terrace (HB16/22/018F). 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: Cast iron and uPVC Walling: Newry Granodiorite Windows: Timber sash and uPVC casement