30 Main Street, Loughgall, Armagh, Co Armagh, BT61 8HZ

30 Main Street, Loughgall, is a 19th-century house of considerable architectural interest. Dating from the 1820s to 1830s, it forms a handsome block on the main street when viewed together with the adjoining Orange Hall, with which it shares a roof line and gutter. The building is Grade B2 listed.

The house is a 2-storey, 2-bay gabled structure with its main entrance facing south. The south elevation is rendered in roughcast, with a roof of Bangor blue slates laid in regular courses and a single red brick chimney with a red stub pot at the right-hand extremity. The fenestration comprises rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung with 6 over 6 panes and horns, set in smooth rendered reveals with projecting painted stone cills. The principal feature is the elliptically arched entrance doorcase, which has smooth rendered reveals and contains a rectangular timber panelled door with fluted pilasters. This is flanked by decoratively glazed side lights and surmounted by a radially glazed elliptical fanlight. A stone step mounted with an old cast iron boot scraper leads to the door.

The east elevation displays an east gable rendered in roughcast with exposed rubble stonework to its base. A single first-floor window here is a timber sash of the same type as the front elevation but with exposed sash boxes. A cast iron downpipe returns from the front gutter. The north or rear elevation is rendered roughcast with a smooth rendered plinth and plain projecting smooth rendered eaves course. The roof is slated as on the front. A semi-circular arched timber sliding sash window on the right-hand side of the projecting rear return has 6 over 6 panes with horns, and its upper sash is surmounted by radial lights. This window has a projecting painted stone cill. A cast iron gutter and downpipe serve the rear. The rear return is 2-storey and gabled, with rendered roughcast walls on a smooth rendered plinth, timber fascias and bargeboards. Two windows to the north gable are modern rectangular timber small-paned fixed lights with side-hung casements; the east side is blind while the west side contains a modern rectangular flush timber door. Synthetic slates cover this section, which has plastic gutters.

The building is set back slightly from the main street with a small grassed garden to the front. The front boundary comprises hooped iron railings on a low rubble stone plinth wall with stone coping and returns at the extremities. A decorative cast iron seat is attached to the railings along the front path. A stone flagged path leads from the street to the main entrance, set with three 19th-century encaustic tiles. An old shaped stone bollard marks the edge of the driveway leading to the rear yard. A gateway attached to the east gable consists of a pair of square roughcast piers with a pair of flat iron gates. The rear yard is hard-surfaced and shared with the adjoining Orange Hall.

The building appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1860, with a structure shown on the same site on the 1834 map, though the relationship between them is indeterminate. The present building retains its original architectural features to the front to a high degree. The listing extends to the house, cast iron railings, seat and gates. The building stands within a conservation area and is in Orange Order ownership.