West Lodge and West Cottage, 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.
West Lodge and West Cottage, Church Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AQ
- WRENN ID
- deep-storey-reed
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- Newry and Armagh MP: Dáire Hughes (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- West Lodge and West Cottage, Church Road, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, BT35 7AQ, BT35 7AQ
- Irish grid reference
- J 044 285
- Coordinates
- 54.19503, -6.40028
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
These are a pair of near-symmetrical one-and-a-half-storey three-bay lodges, originally serving as gates and screens. They are now used as houses. The lodges are constructed of random-coursed rock-faced Newry Granodiorite stone walling with red brick dressings, and are flanked by original wrought iron entrance gates hung on square section stone pillars.
The western lodge is in the better-preserved original condition with a natural slate roof, exposed moulded timber rafters to the eaves, a central chimney with two pots, and original double-hung sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. The eastern lodge has a single-storey return to the northwest and a flat-roofed stone extension to the east. This lodge has a fibre cement roof with a half dormer and uPVC top-opening casement windows throughout, along with uPVC rainwater goods. A stone garden boundary walling surrounds the buildings.
Local climate
West Lodge and West Cottage, 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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