Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Orange Lodge
Mullycavan, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Hall
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Orange Lodge, Mullycavan, Rosslea, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 7PE
- Townland
- Mullycavan
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.21931, -7.21348
- Date of survey
- 13 September 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/01/026
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1868 "4. Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single-storey Orange Lodge with central projecting entrance porch aligned NE-SW set to the NE of Rose Lough.
Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimney to each gable. Advanced eaves course supporting half round cast-iron rainwater goods. Walls are wet dashed and painted over random rubble.
Principal elevation faces NW. It is abutted to centre by a projecting porch detailed as main block. Its end face contains the entrance set within a semicircular-headed opening; door is t+g sheeted with a plainly glazed transom over. A thin timber architrave rests on plinth blocks. Above door is a datestone reading A.D./1899. Left and right cheeks are blank. To either side of the entrance porch on main block is a boarded window with painted stone cill.
Left and right gables are blank.
Rear elevation is abutted to left end by a modern lean-to return. The exposed section is blank. Return is constructed with concrete blocks and finished as main block. It has a corrugated metal roof and all exposed faces are blank.
Setting
To front is a small garden enclosed to lane by a concrete wall with square-in-section gate piers carrying a cast-iron gate.
Historical information
Datestone attests to erection in 1899.
Primary sources:
1. Datestone.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A single-storey Orange Lodge with central projecting porch quite similar to nearby Orange Lodge in Inver Td (HB12/01/023).
Nearby in the register
- Houseunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
- McMahon's SpadeworksMillunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.