24-26 Main Street, Loughgall, Armagh, Co Armagh, BT61 8HZ

24-26 Main Street, Loughgall is a two-storey gabled house of probable mid to late 19th-century date, likely dating from the third quarter of the 1800s, with a single-storey lean-to extension to the east end. The building appears in its current configuration on the 1908 Ordnance Survey map, though an L-shaped building shown on earlier maps from 1834 and 1860 may relate to an earlier phase. The house was substantially renovated around 2000. It is of no special architectural or historic interest, though it presents a traditional appearance to the main street frontage which includes an original rectangular fanlight.

The south-facing main elevation is rendered with wet dash and comprises a four-bay, two-storey main block beneath a roof of Bangor blue slates in regular courses. Three chimneys are present: one of new red brick on the left-hand gable, and two of old red brick elsewhere, all with stub pots. Windows are timber sliding sashes, vertically hung with horns—four over eight panes on the first floor and eight over eight panes on the ground floor—though the extreme left ground floor window is a modern insertion replacing an original window and doorway now removed, fitted with a concrete cill in place of stone. The main entrance is positioned in the third opening to the right, set in its original opening, and now contains a new rectangular timber-panelled door surmounted by the original rectangular fanlight with looped glazing bars. A small single-storey lean-to extension extends to the right, originally a shed but now incorporated into the house. Its wall is rendered to match the main block and blind, though it originally contained a small rectangular window now removed; it bears a new timber bargeboard where originally there was a plain verge. Cast iron gutters and downpipes serve the south elevation.

The west gable of the main block is a plain, blind wall of roughcast painted white. The rear elevation is two-storey with slated roof and rendered walls throughout. It has undergone substantial alteration: the first floor contains four windows in original positions but of modern top-hung type with twelve panes each, replacing original timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, three over three with horns, and one over one with horns. Ground floor fenestration includes one window to the left of a projecting rear return, of modern fixed light and top-hung type (six over six panes with horns) replacing original timber sliding sashes (three over three with horns); to the extreme right-hand end is a pair of modern coupled windows styled as pseudo-sashes but actually fixed lights with top-hung vents (each light eight over eight panes); and immediately to the right of the rear return are French windows (each leaf twelve-paned), a new insertion replacing an original window opening. Between the French windows and coupled windows is blank walling, a new insertion replacing the original rear doorway. Modern concrete cills are present throughout the rear elevation, along with metal rainwater goods. The rear return comprises a gabled block with roughcast walling at ground floor surmounted by a glazed and framed first floor including modern gable-glazing. The gable contains a doorway flanked by small windows on each side, all small-paned, replacing two larger windows, each sashed two over two with horns, with no original doorway.

The single-storey lean-to extension extending from the left-hand end of the main block to the rear contains a new window of pseudo-sash type, with walling and bargeboard matching the south elevation. The east elevation comprises a blind rendered gable of the main block with a single-storey ground floor projection beneath a lean-to roof. The east wall of the lean-to contains two windows of pseudo-sash type, small-paned and coupled.

The building occupies a prominent position on the main street, set back slightly and elevated above street level. The setting includes a small front garden bounded by low rubble stone retaining walls with hedges beyond, both curving at the east end and returning in front of the main entrance to border a flight of six stone steps leading to the doorway, lined each side by modern tubular steel railings. An east-facing gateway with flat-iron gates mounted on a rectangular roughcast pier with concrete coping leads to the rear yard and is positioned at the adjacent Orange Hall gable. The driveway and rear yard are gravelled with crushed stone, except for a raised patio immediately along the rear of the house to the right of the rear return, covered with modern tiling on a curved plan. In the rear yard facing the driveway stands a two-storey outbuilding with slated roof; its ground floor walls have been rendered in roughcast in place of previous rubble stonework, with red brickwork above, and it contains modern pseudo-sash windows and small-paned top-hung vents replacing original sashed windows. The eastern boundary is formed by the gable and screen wall of the Orange Hall; the western boundary by rubble stone walling and screen wall of the neighbouring house.

The building has undergone numerous alterations to its original exterior appearance and interior layout and finishes, substantially detracting from its original character.