Major Uprichard, Memorial Orange Hall, 45 Banbridge Road, Tullylish, Co Down, BT32 3YB

Detached symmetrical two-storey rubblestone orange hall opened in 1928 in a converted mill building with possible 1786 origins, with gable-fronted entrance porch. Rectangular on plan facing north-west and set within its own small plot to the south of the A50. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, replacement extruded aluminium rainwater goods and uPVC barge boards. Two redbrick profiled wall-headed chimneystacks with terracotta pots to rear elevation. Random coursed and snecked rubblestone walling with squared flush granite quoins. Square-headed window openings formed in flush redbrick surrounds, granite sills and 1/1 timber sliding sash windows with margin lights and steel grills over unless otherwise stated. Front (north-west) elevation is five windows wide to first floor with a central gable-fronted single storey entrance porch flanked by two windows to ground floor. Porch is built of rubblestone with redbrick dressings having pitched natural slate roof, terracotta finial and replacement extruded aluminium rainwater goods and uPVC barge boards. Replacement square-headed hardwood panelled door, overlight and sidelights with granite sills surmounted by a polished black stone plaque inscribed, 'Major Uprichard Memorial Orange Hall Tullylish 1928'; cheeks blank. North-east gable has a central steel loading bay door to first floor directly over a square-headed vertically-sheeted timber door with sidelights and surmounted by an inscribed date plaque stating: ‘1844’. South-east (rear) elevation has an irregular fenestration pattern; three windows to first floor, four to ground floor. South-west gable is blank. Setting Set within its own small plot enclosed to the A50 by rubblestone walls with concrete coping and a single wrought-iron pedestrian gate on stone piers with red brick dressings and concrete capstones, hedging encloses the site to the adjacent lane and neighbouring fields. The hall is located adjacent to a row of single-storey terraced cottages to the south. Roof Natural slate Walling Rubblestone Windows Timber RWG Extruded aluminium