Former Schoolhouse, Bluestone Public Elementary School, Bluestone Road, Portadown, Co Armagh, BT63 5SH

Freestanding single-storey four-bay former schoolhouse, built c.1820s, to the designs of an unknown architect, located on the north-west side of Bluestone Road, Portadown. Roughly T-shape on plan with projecting mono-pitched entrance porch to front, lean-to to north-east gable wall and single-storey rear return. Schoolhouse building faces directly onto Bluestone Road, separated only by a boundary wall; rural land to south-west and north-west. Pitched roof to main volume; rear return hipped to rear end, both natural slate with angled ridge tiles; uPVC gutters on plain eaves with uPVC downpipes throughout. Walling is painted roughcast render over red brick. Window-openings are generally camber-headed containing multi-paned timber casement windows with painted masonry cills, unless otherwise stated. Principal elevation faces south-east; asymmetrical with three windows covered by steel window mesh. Projecting porch has plain reveals with name plaque above bearing lettering ‘BLUESTONE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL’. South-west elevation comprises gable wall and rear return wall. Gable wall has single multi-panelled timber door with plain transom above and single square-head window opening with steel mesh over window. Redundant uPVC piping to wall. Rear return wall has two square-headed window openings with steel mesh over windows. Gable surmounted by painted roughcast rendered chimneystack with stepped masonry cornice. North-west (rear) elevation comprises rear return wall and wall of main volume. Rear elevation windows of main volume same as front elevation; rear return has no windows and same walling as throughout. North-east elevation not accessible due to overgrowth but mono-pitched slated lean-to with painted roughcast walling and window visible from front. Gable surmounted by identical chimneystack to that on opposite side. Boundary wall is painted render with triangular masonry coping. Two gate piers with pyramidal coping contain wrought-iron gate over flight of steps leading down to infilled entrance. Outbuilding to rear constructed of painted concrete blocks with corrugated iron roof over timber fascia. Roof: Natural slate Windows: Timber Rainwater goods: uPVC Walling: Painted roughcast render