Grange O'Neiland School, 48 Annagora Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT62 4JE

Grange O'Neiland School is an early Victorian building in restrained Tudor Revival style, constructed in the 1840s and appearing on the Ordnance Survey map of 1860. It retains several original features and forms a pleasing group with the adjacent church.

The building is a single storey rendered structure with paired octagonal chimneys in cut stone (painted) and decorative bargeboards and eaves boards. The main entrance faces west. The west elevation comprises a five-bay central block with projecting gabled wings to each end. Roofs are laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses with oversailing eaves. The central block has two sets of paired octagonal chimneys and two louvred ventilators on the ridge. Walls are smooth rendered, lined and blocked, with painted cut stone quoins to the extremities of the wing gables. Cast iron gutters and downpipes are fitted throughout.

Windows to the central block are coupled rectangular metal lozenge-glazed side-hung casements with top-hung fixed lights and horizontally pivoting opening lights, set in timber frames with transoms and mullions. They sit in chamfered reveals with projecting stone cills and are surmounted by moulded rectangular labels.

The main entrance consists of a pair of tongued and grooved timber doors set in chamfered reveals with rectangular label moulding above. Projecting in front is an open porch comprising a pair of cut stone pillars with pilaster responds; the openings between these were later closed by rendered infill side walls. The porch has a moulded frieze and triangular pediment, with a cement screed doorstep.

The front gable of the right-hand wing contains a large modern rectangular timber three-light window with horizontal panel division and fixed lights flanking central opening lights. The left-hand wall of this wing has a doorway similar to the main entrance but without a porch. The front gable of the left-hand wing contains a canted bay window set in a segmental arched recess, with timber frames to fixed light windows, projecting cills, and panelled stone plinth walls below.

The north elevation has roofing and walling consistent with the front. Two windows flank a projecting gabled porch to the left, with one window to its right. Windows are later modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents set in plain reveals with moulded labels. The porch gable contains a modern rectangular glazed timber door in plain reveals with moulded label; the apex of the gable features a small circular window with cusped trefoil tracery.

The south elevation retains the roofing and eaves boards consistent with other elevations. At the right-hand end of the main roof is one short square smooth rendered chimney with octagonal stoneware pot. Modern PVC gutters and downpipes are present, though some cast iron downpipes are retained. Two windows to the left of a gabled projecting bay are metal lozenge-glazed in timber frames as the entrance front but set in plain reveals without label mouldings. One main window to the right of the gabled projection is similarly detailed but with modern replacement single-pane lower lights. A lower roofed extension extends to the right, with walling and roofing consistent with the main building but smaller slates and a plain timber eaves board.

The rear elevation shows roughcast rendered walling and slated roof with timber eaves board and wooden panelled soffit. Four large window openings originally existed: two contain metal fixed lights and pivoting lights, one is now blocked with smooth render, and one is partially blocked with cement (keyed for finishing coat) containing a modern PVC window of fixed light, top-hung vent and casement, with concrete cills. One doorway contains a modern flush timber door in a plain timber frame.

The south wing projecting forward at the left-hand end has slated roof, PVC gutter, timber eaves board and decorative scalloped bargeboards, with smooth cement rendered walls lined and blocked. A gabled extension to the south wing projects forward from this, with walls and roof consistent with the wing but plain timber eaves board and bargeboards and PVC rainwater goods.

The north wing, projecting at the right-hand end, is of one-and-a-half storeys. It has slated roof with a modern flush rooflight, and the gable retains original ornamental bargeboards. The side wall has a plain timber eaves board. Walls are rendered roughcast with cast iron gutter and downpipes. One smooth rendered chimney sits on the gable. Ground floor contains one modern rectangular PVC window with concrete cill; two attic windows are semi-circular arched timber fixed lights with stone cills. One window in the side wall is modern rectangular PVC, and one doorway in the side wall is modern rectangular glazed timber.

The building stands in a rural setting, set well back from the public road on rising ground within its own grounds, shared with a church. The site is bounded by hedges and wooden fences, with grassed areas to the north and south and an adjoining field to the east. The church stands to the north, with a tarmac area immediately in front of the school.

Immediately to the rear is an enclosed yard accessed by a gateway containing a pair of iron-framed corrugated iron gates, mounted on a rendered pilaster-pier attached to the school and a painted stone square pier. Along the east side of the yard stands a single storey outbuilding, a water tower, and toilets.

The outbuilding has a hipped slated roof and walls of rubble stonework with red brick dressings to openings. From left to right are: a segmental archway containing a recessed brick-dressed rectangular doorway; a rectangular flat-arched doorway now closed with concrete blockwork; and a segmental archway containing a pair of timber boarded doors with iron framing.

The water tower is of red brick on a square plan, partly rising from rubble stone and rendered walls. A flat-arched doorway sits in the base, with flat-arched openings at higher level containing timber louvres. A steep pyramidal slated roof oversails the walls and is topped with a turned timber finial. To the south of the water tower are rendered screen walls to small toilets in semi-derelict condition.

The rear yard is surfaced in concrete paving with boundary walling of rubble stonework, partly rendered.

The south hall was used for a long time as a Church of Ireland church, with records of baptisms from at least 1848 until the new church of St Paul was built nearby to the west in 1926.