86 Main Street, Greyabbey, County Down, BT22 2NG is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

86 Main Street, Greyabbey, County Down, BT22 2NG

WRENN ID
gaunt-lime-magpie
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Country
Northern Ireland
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A small, single-storey Orange hall set within a mixed terrace on the north-west side of Main Street in Greyabbey. Originally constructed as a dwelling house around 1820, the building was converted to its present use in 1903 and extended to the rear around the 1960s. It retains a domestic appearance externally.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with the entrance positioned to the left side. Roughly hewn stone steps rise to the front entrance, which is marked by a semicircular arched doorway. The doorcase features a painted stone surround in the "Ards" style, composed of plain pilasters and a semicircular arch with keystone. The front door itself is a uPVC replacement. To the right of the entrance are two flat-arched window openings with cut stone sills, fitted with uPVC replacement windows. The exposed west gable is blank. The north façade comprises the 1960s extension, with a series of flat-headed window and door openings, all in uPVC frames. The main roof is pitched and covered with artificial slate, with uPVC rainwater goods. The front wall is finished with ruled and lined render over a plain plinth with a plain eaves course. The side and rear walls are finished with roughcast render.

The site appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. Contemporary valuation records from around 1834–1838 note the structure as one of six non-rateable houses. By the 1861 valuation, the building is recorded as occupied by Samuel Lavery with a rateable value of £2 5s 0d. Later occupants included Ellen McDermott (1885), S. Cummings (1894), and William Morrison (1900). In 1903 the Orange Lodge acquired the property and converted it for their use, having previously met elsewhere on Main Street.

The building's single-storey form suggests an early 19th-century date. The semicircular-headed "Ards" door surround appears on various properties in Greyabbey and Newtownards from the 1820s through 1850s, though the moulding on the arch itself suggests a date closer to 1850 or later. The rear extension postdates 1903, as the valuation dimensions recorded in that year correspond only to the original structure. Alterations to the rear and replacement of doors and windows with uPVC have detracted from the building's architectural interest, though it retains local significance as an Orange hall.

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