Former schoolhouse, 4 Richmount Road, Scotch Street, Portadown, County Armagh, BT62 4JA

Small, formal, single-storey hipped-roof schoolhouse of 1849, now in use as a hall. The building is set on gently sloping ground on the E side of Richmount Road, on the eastern fringe of the recently much-developed village of Scotch Street, about 4.4km NW of Portadown town centre. The building is L-shaped in plan with a a symmetrical (NW-facing) front with large, central gabled porch, and a small lean-to extension to the rear. The walls are largely finished in painted roughcast with a tall smooth render base course and the overhanging roof is covered in natural (Welsh) slate, as is the roof of the porch - which also has plain timber bargeboards. There is a single rendered chimneystack roughly to centre of the main roof. The windows, which are relatively large and set at a high level, are mainly flat-arched and filled with replacement PVC frames. The porch has a segmental-headed entrance with replacement timber double-leaf door with small segmental-headed windows to the porch sides. Above the entrance is a recently inserted (?slate) panel which reads ‘Richmount Old School’. To the rear there is a small, recently-added lean-to. The RW goods are a combination of cast-iron and PVC. The eastern corner of building is abutted by a single-storey structure, which appears to belong to the neighbouring property to the N. The ground immediately around the building (consisting mainly of a forecourt to the W and S) is largely covered in uneven stones. Modern vehicle gate to W. Small former toilet block to the E boundary with pebbledash / roughcast walls and mono-pitch roof.