Memorial Orange Hall, 24 Springvale Road, Banbridge, County Down, BT63 6EB

A symmetrical three-bay two-storey red-brick Orange Hall, dated 1914 and built to designs by William Larmor; located to the north side of Springvale Road northeast of Banbridge. Rectangular plan with two-storey return and small single-storey abutments to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and moulded stone verges to gables; two red-brick chimneystacks, having three clay pots, to rear. Cast-iron half-round rainwater goods on moulded eaves course. Walling is Flemish-bonded red-brick on a chamfered plinth with decorative moulded string course between floors and under eaves; continuous sill course to first floor. Windows are metal casements (boarded to ground floor) with projecting stone sills to ground floor. The principal elevation faces southeast and is three openings wide to each floor, divided by brick lesenes. To centre at ground floor is doorway (covered with steel security gate) surmounted by square-headed overlight and hood mould and accessed via three stone steps. Carved terracotta tiled plaque above door reads “Dr. KANE MEMORIAL/ ORANGE HALL /TULLYLISH 1914”. Red sandstone foundation stone to south corner above plinth reads “THIS FOUNDATIONS STONE / WAS LAID BY / MASTER RICHARD FORSTER RUTTLEDGE UPRICHARD / ON THE 4TH DAY OF APRIL 1914”. The southwest elevation has oculus to apex; two windows to first and ground floor with dividing lesenes. The northwest (rear) elevation is three bays wide divided by two projecting chimneystacks; window to first floor centre and left; window to left of centre at ground floor. Abutted at right by the two-storey pitched roof return (lower) having window to apex and further abutted by a single storey return to left; right cheek has door to left and window to right (both boarded); left cheek entirely abutted by a single-storey lean-to with door to left and window to right (both blocked up). single storey return comprises three diminutive square-headed bricked up openings at ground level of gable; right cheek has a diminutive window to right: left cheek has a door to left. The northeast elevation has oculus to apex; two windows to first and ground floor with dividing lesenes. Setting Situated in a rural setting on an elevated site; gravelled avenue to southeast, tree-lined to south side, leads to gravelled concourse. Bounded to all sides by mature hedgerow and accessed from Springvale Road to southeast by a set of original steel gates on roughcast rendered square gate piers. Curved roughcast rendered entrance wall topped by random stone coping. Roof: Natural slate Walling: Brick Windows: Metal casements RWG: Cast-iron