Former school house, Meeting House Street, Portaferry, Co Down, BT22 1LD

Single storey school house, of 1849, originally rectangular in shape, but renovated and extended in 1890 when the front porch and rear extension were added. The building is now used as a church hall. The property is set on the NE side of Meetinghouse Street, just to the E of Portaferry town centre. Front SW elevation is symmetrical with a central projecting porch. The SE face is blank while the SW face has a single window with a modern (transomed) three pane window and moulded cement surround with key stone. The NE face has the main front door which has a similar moulding. To the left and right of the projecting porch are three windows as before. Cill course, now neatly repaired. Quoins set on pilaster-like narrow projecting pier. Projecting pier also between second and third windows. Similar lined piers also on corners of front projecting porch. Gable above porch with moulded cement name plate. Moulded verge to raised centre roof feature. Bracket decoration to simple eaves course. Eaves course on porch. Cills on front elevation originally sandstone and now linked with a smooth cement course. Rear NE elevation Plain sheeted timber door to far left with square sliding sash and high level window above. Similar window to right of this. [Projecting bay] This projecting bay has two extensions to either side, a large lean to extension to the left and a much smaller porch extension to the right. The left extension appears to be more recent and has a corrugated iron roof.. The main projection and the smaller right hand porch extension both have Bangor blue slated roofs and are older (c.1890). (Left extension) Plain sheeted timber door . Three light window to right of door with horizontal mullions with left and right casement lights side hung. (Main gable) Main gable of projecting bay blank. (Right porch extension) Plain sheeted double timber doors with fanlight. Entire rear elevation finished in rough cast render. Rear return to SE has steel three pane window (as in north east elevation) to the far left. Two single light windows with top openers to the right. Small window with single pane. All stone cills. Cast iron gutters and down spouts. North west elevation- [Projecting bay] Two windows with paired single modern timber transomed windows sharing a stone cill. Plaque to right of windows. Gable of small lean to porch blank. [Main building] Gable of building blank, but with quoins and projecting boxed in verge. The roof of all the main sections are gabled and covered with Bangor blue slates. Yellow brick chimneys to both gables of main building and in centre of main projecting bay. Finished in pebbledash render with decorative window bands, quoins and plinth. Much renovated nineteenth century ‘Master’s house’ within school yard to NW. Low random rubble wall with brick piers and cement cope stone, now whitewashed. Wall encloses concrete school yard