Knocks Orange Hall, Knocks Td, Rosslea, Co. Fermanagh

Knocks Orange Hall is a single-storey Orange Lodge dating to between 1880 and 1895, situated north of Knocks Townland in County Fermanagh. The building has undergone significant alteration and now retains limited original external features.

The building is aligned north-east to south-west with a projecting central entrance porch. It is enclosed by a hedgerow and a painted concrete wall with square-in-section gate piers supporting a cast-iron gate bearing a central star and the name “KNOX”. The former pitched artificial slate roof now slopes to the rear over a modern extension. A polychrome brick chimney is present on the left gable. An advanced eaves course with plain timber boarding carries metal rainwater goods.

The principal, south-east facing elevation has walls that are pebble-dashed over a smooth, painted rendered basecourse, with stepped and painted dressed stone quoins. A projecting porch is positioned centrally and matches the detailing of the main block. The porch front has a modern six-panel timber door with an obscurely glazed fanlight above. Blank cheeks flank the door. Semicircular-headed windows with painted stone sills are present on each exposed face of the main block, though both are now boarded over. The left elevation is blank, while the rear is entirely abutted by a modern extension featuring a catslide roof. The extension's detailing mirrors the main block, with a door to the left and a uPVC side-hung casement window to the right, set on a concrete cill. The right elevation includes two small uPVC windows with concrete cills on the extension, and a stone plaque reading “KNOX / ORANGE HALL / 1895”.

A datestone indicates erection in 1895. The building was formerly used as a hall and currently retains that use, and is owned by the Orange Order.