30 Main Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A 2-storey 2-bay gabled house under the same roof as the adjoining Orange Hall. Main entrance faces south.

South elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; one chimney, on right-hand extremity, of red brick, with one red stub pot. Wall rendered roughcast. Moulded gutter, shared with adjoining Orange Hall. Windows are rectangular timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 6 over 6, with horns, set in smooth rendered reveals; projecting stone cills, painted. Doorway is elliptical arched with smooth rendered reveals, containing a rectangular timber panelled door with fluted pilasters flanked by decoratively glazed side lights surmounted by a radially glazed elliptical fanlight. Stone step to door, mounted with an old cast iron boot scraper.

East elevation: east gable, rendered roughcast, with rubble stonework to base; cast iron downpipe from gutter returning from front elevation. One window, to first floor, right-hand side, sashed as previous, but with exposed sash boxes.

Rear or north elevation: roof slated as previous; walling rendered with roughcast, with smooth rendered plinth; plain projecting smooth rendered eaves course. Cast iron gutter with cast iron downpipe to left of rear return. One window to right-hand side of projecting rear return: semi-circular arched timber sliding sash, vertically hung, 6 over 6, with horns, the upper sash surmounted by radial lights, set in smooth rendered reveals, with projecting stone cill, painted.
Rear return is 2-storey, gabled, with rendered roughcast walls on smooth rendered plinth, timber fascias and bargeboards; looks like pvc gutters; cast iron downpipe, synthetic slates. Two windows to north gable, modern rectangular timber small-paned fixed lights and side-hung casements. East side blind; west side contains a modern rectangular flush timber door.

SETTING: The building stands facing the main street, set back from it slightly with a small grassed garden at the front. Front boundary formed by hooped iron railings on a low rubble stone plinth wall returning at extremities; stone coping. Decorative cast iron seat attached to railings along front path leading to entrance. Stone flagged path leading from street to main entrance, with three 19th century encaustic tiles set in it. Old shaped stone bollard at edge of driveway leading to rear yard. Attached to east gable is a gateway comprising a pair of square roughcast piers and a pair of flat iron gates. Hard surfaced yard to rear, shared with adjoining Orange Hall.

Historical information

Precise date of building not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1860. A building is shown on the site on the OS map of 1834 but its relationship to the present building is indeterminate. It may be taken that the present building is at least of mid-19th century date and possibly earlier.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1834, Co Armagh 8.
2. OS Map 1860, Co Armagh 8.

Secondary Sources
1. DOENI, Loughgall: A Conservation Village (Belfast, 1993), pp 10 (lower illustration), 28.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
H-. Alterations detracting from building
I. Quality and survival of Interior
J. Setting
K. Group value

Criteria for listing: historic interest

V. Authorship
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is a 19th century building which retains its original features to the front, including an elliptically arched pilastered doorcase, and together with the adjoining Orange Hall forms a handsome block on the main street.