Orange Hall

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single storey 3-bay gabled building under the same roof as no. 30 Main Street. Main entrance faces south.

South elevation: roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses; two chimneys, one to each extremity, of red brick, with one red stub pot each. Walls smooth cement rendered, lined, and blocked, with raised quoins to extremities; moulded cornice. Moulded gutter, looks like pvc.
Central projecting lower gabled porch: slated roof as previous, with red terracotta ridge tiles; shaped decorative timber bargeboards with turned timber finial to apex. Walls rendered as previous, with plain projecting eaves course. Looks like moulded pvc gutter with cast iron downpipe to each side. Central entrance comprises rectangular moulded timber double doors with 2-pane sidelights in modern replacement moulded timber frames surmounted by a semi-circular fanlight containing two arched glazing bars with five margin lights, all set in a moulded opening surmounted by an arched drip moulding. In apex of porch gable is a rectangular marble plaque inscribed 'Loughgall District Orange Hall, AD 1907'.
Doorway approached by five stone steps.
Each side wall of porch contains a semi-circular arched window comprising rectangular timber sliding sashes, 1 over 1, with margin lights, with horns, the upper sash surmounted by an arched light with five margin lights, set in similar opening to main entrance with similar drip moulding. To each side of the porch the main wall of the building contains a large arched window of similar elements to the porch windows.

West elevation is a blind gable, rendered with wet dash, with raised quoins to the right-hand extremity. Projecting at the right-hand extremity is a plain iron gate of an adjoining property.

Rear elevation: roof slated as previous; walling rendered with wet dash, with smooth rendered projecting eaves course, and small smooth rendered plinth. Cast iron guttering. Main part of rear wall is obscured by a modern single storey split-gabled rear return. Rear return has rendered walls, wet dash, with smooth rendered plinth; plain timber fascias and bargeboards; pvc rainwater goods; modern rectangular timber windows, fixed lights and top-hung vents; rectangular panelled door; synthetic slates to roof.

SETTING: The building stands facing the main street, set back from it slightly with a grassed garden in front. Adjoining it on the east side under the same roof is a 2-storey rendered house, no. 30 Main Street. Front boundary formed by hooped iron railings on a low rubble stone plinth wall returning at extremities; concrete coping; urn finials to corner rails. Steps to front entrance flanked each side by large scrolling iron brackets with curved handrails attached to front wall of porch. Flag pole in front plot to eastern side of porch.
Setting at rear comprises a hard surfaced yard shared with no. 30 Main Street.

Historical information

Built in mid 19th Centuryalong with conjoined accommodation to side with alterations in 1907 according to the datestone which is inscribed "Loughgall District Orange Hall AD 1907".

References – Primary Sources
1. Datestone on building.
2. OS Map 1908, Co Armagh 8.

Secondary Sources
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
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
X. Local Interest

Evaluation

This is an unusual arrangement of Orange Hall with conjoined accommodation of mid 19th Century origin which retains its original features to the front, and together with the adjoining house forms a handsome block on the main street.