45-55 Main Street

Nos.45-55 Main Street, Benburb, is a terrace of single-storey cottages with ornamental porches and bargeboards on the main street of the village.

  The cottages had been declared unfit, and Hearth enquired about taking them on, but at the same time a group of four local men were setting up a self-build housing association to restore the buildings for themselves. In the event Hearth acted as architects to them, advising as work proceeded through evenings and weekends. To date this is the only self-build group to have worked on listed buildings in the province.