Johnston Memorial Orange Hall, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92

This is a 19th-century Orange Hall situated on the south side of Main Street in Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh. The hall was built on the site of an earlier Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, first recorded in the 1860 Valuation book as being of dressed stone, 30ft x 45ft x 2 storeys, with a 15ft x 9ft porch. The datestone indicates a change of use to an Orange Hall in 1889, suggesting the original chapel building was likely incorporated into the new structure.

The hall is a simple roadside building with a projecting north-south aligned entrance porch. The roof is pitched and covered with artificial slate, with a red brick chimney on the south gable. The eaves are supported by a timber board, and the building has plastic rainwater goods. The walls are harled with dressed stone quoins over a cement-rendered base course, although all openings are currently sheeted over for security. The north elevation is largely hidden by a large projecting porch, which has a pitched natural slate roof and ashlar stone walls over a chamfered base course, with metal rainwater goods and advanced stone eaves. The porch’s north face is flanked by two stepped angle buttresses, and features a central lancet window with a flush stone cill, above which is the datestone inscribed "The / Johnston Memorial / Orange Hall / 1889". Gothic-headed doors are on either side of the window; the left door is timber-sheeted, while the right door is metal-sheeted, each with a fixed pane trefoil window above. The east elevation has three tall, narrow 1x3 timber top-hung casements, except for the left opening, which is 1x2 and contains a modern six-panelled door. The south gable is blank, and the west elevation is abutted by a lower, full-length annexe with a monopitched roof and four infilled window openings, along with a boarded window opening on the north side. The hall is set within a paved area fronted by a cast-iron railing set on a cement-rendered wall.