Orange Hall, 79 Main Street, Scarva, Craigavon, Co Down, BT63 6LS

A gabled two-storey three-bay red-brick Orange Hall with crenellated three-stage entrance towers, dated 1908 and located to the south side of Main Street in Scarva. Rectangular on plan with a square tower to northwest and southwest corners. Roof is concealed behind crenellated parapet; red-brick chimneystacks with clay pots to west gable; ball finials to gables. Cast-iron rainwater downpipes and hopper (guttering is concealed). Walling is English garden wall-bonded red-brick on a chamfered plinth with string course between floors. Windows are tripartite timber casements with projecting stone sills. The principal elevation faces west; central section is four windows wide with narrow crow-stepped gable over central two openings, flanked by chimneys. The central section is flanked by a three-stage entrance tower, having crenellated parapets and window to each face at third stage (those to west are gothic). First and second stages have windows to inner cheek; first stage of outer cheek of north-west tower has single window, second stage blank; first stage of outer cheek of south-west tower is obscured, second stage blank; paired windows at second stage to west elevation; entrance to ground floor. North-west tower has a replacement gothic timber-sheeted double-leaf timber door with hood mould; south-west entrance is boarded. The north elevation has a crow-stepped gable flanked by crenellated parapet with square entrance tower to right flush with gable. Three windows to first floor (that to centre is round-arched and larger with segmental string course above). Plaque to first floor below central window reads “SCARVA ORANGE HALL OPENED 14TH JULY 1908 REDEDICATED 13TH JULY 2008”. Two blind windows to ground floor. The east elevation has crenellated parapet with two equally spaced wall-headed chimneys; four windows evenly spaced to first floor; to far left at first floor (slightly lower than level of windows) is a square-headed fire exit door, accessed by a set of concrete steps descending to the left. To first floor right is a round-arched stairwell window. Ground floor has four evenly spaced windows and two smaller windows at right (partially bricked up). The south elevation has a crow-stepped gable flanked by crenellated parapet; two round-arched windows to first floor; fire exit to right at ground floor. Setting Set back from the road on a large exposed site, lawned to front and rear and accessed via a gravel driveway. Red-brick curved entrance wall with saddleback coping stones and square gate piers having pointed caps and supporting original metal gates. Bounded to three sides by mature hedgerow. Modern housing estate to west; views over surrounding farmland to south and east. Roof: Concealed behind parapet Walling: Brick Windows: Timber RWG: Cast-iron