6 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 two storey rear return, added c.1988. No. 6 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, painted 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 (rebuilt c.1988 in rustic brick) has two terracotta clay pots; chimney to SW has three 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 2/2 sliding timber sash windows, with horns and reduced height top sashes. Multiple panel painted timber door, with a small glazed section to top, opens onto public footpath; painted metal furniture to door and a square-headed fanlight above. Window to NE side of door. Northeast elevation To the NE the building is attached to No. 5 Maytown Terrace (HB16/22/018E). Southeast elevation Limited access to rear SE facing elevation but, where visible, consists of a reduced bay to NE, with a top opening timber casement window visible at FF level overlooking enclosed rear yard. Two storey pitched roof rear return projects from SW end of elevation to rear site boundary at SE having a timber casement window to FF and a similar window in-line to GF. Yard boundary walling has a cement render finish and a painted sheeted timber door leading from rear access route. Monopitched corrugated Perspex roof to yard and modern oil tank is raised above yard roof covering. Rear elevation and rear return have a smooth cement render finish with slim concrete cills. Southwest To the SW the building is attached to No. 7 Maytown Terrace (HB16/22/018G). 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 timber casements