Orange Hall, 18 Hamilton Road, Bangor, Co Down, BT20 4LF

A semi-detached three-bay two-storey Orange Hall built 1872 to designs by Francis Stirrat. Rectangular on plan with two-storey gabled porch to front. Pitched tiled roof with raised stone skew and kneelers to gable; rectangular rendered chimneystacks with plinth and terracotta pots. Half-round, cast-iron rainwater goods on drive-in brackets. Walling is smooth ruled-and-lined render. Windows are 2/2 timber sliding sash to front (replacement), and 6/6 timber sliding sash to rear, unless otherwise stated. Those to projecting porch have label moulds to ground floor and gothic hood moulds to first floor. The principal elevation faces south and is dominated by a large projecting porch with stained glass central lancet window to first floor, sharing hood-moulding with blind niches to either side. To ground floor there is a sheeted timber door to right and a replacement timber door to left; between them a diminutive paired window with chamfered surrounds: window openings to exposed sections of projecting porch. To either side of porch, the main rectangular block has two window openings to ground floor with chamfered surrounds; large single pointed-headed windows to first floor. Date-stone to gable marked “Bangor Orange Hall AD 1872”. The west gable has a timber door with transom light to left. The north (rear) elevation is four openings wide. Abutted by a small single-storey lean-to to left with simple timber door. The east elevation is abutted by adjoining building. Setting Located to the north of the Hamilton road in Bangor town centre. Enclosed to front by smooth render wall with painted chamfered plinth. Access to rear by way of small laneway; rear elevation completely enclosed by rubble stone wall. Roof: Tiled Walling: Render Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron