Magheramorne Orange Hall, 19 Ballypollard Road, Magheramorne, Larne, Co Antrim, BT40 3HN

Magheramorne Orange Hall is a simple late-Victorian orange hall constructed in 1878, as recorded on an inscribed plaque on the entrance front. The architect is not known.

The building is a single-storey gabled structure with rubble blackstone walls, partly built to courses, with painted brick dressings. The main entrance faces east. The east elevation contains five regularly spaced openings comprising a main entrance to the left with four windows to the right. All openings have segmental arches with stop-chamfered reveals to brick block surrounds; the brickwork was later painted red brick colour. The main entrance consists of rectangular flush timber double doors set in a deep recessed porch with reveals and ceiling painted grey and a modern chromium handle. Three granolithic steps lead to the doors, with the outer two curved. The windows are timber sliding sashes, vertically hung with 2 over 2 lights and horns, painted white, with translucent glazing to the lower sashes and projecting stone cills painted grey. The walling is random rubble except for roughly coursed work to the main area of the front below cill level, finished with reticulated pointing. The roof is Bangor Blue slate in regular courses with overhanging verges and eaves and dark-toned ridge tiles; the eaves were later closed off with wire mesh. PVC gutters and downpipes are fitted to each end. Two chimneys, one on each gable, are constructed of red brick with stop chamfers and short cream earthenware pots; the south chimney is of solid brickwork and was never functional.

The south elevation comprises the south gable with a lower later extension to the left. The main gable walling is roughly coursed rubble containing a pair of coupled window openings, segmental arched and dressed in brick as on the front but unpainted and blocked with red brickwork, with projecting unpainted sandstone cills. The extension has wooden timber barge boards with plywood sheeting to soffits. A flat-roofed extension to the left is cement rendered, keyed for dash but not finished, with an asphalt roof, timber fascia, and one rectangular window with metal fixed lights and top-hung vents in plain rendered reveals with a projecting concrete cill.

The rear elevation consists of a single-storey flat-roofed rear extension with the slated roof of the main hall behind. Two modern rooflights are fitted in the roof of the main hall. The extension wall is cement rendered and dry-dashed with marble chippings and contains five rectangular windows with metal fixed lights with side-hung casements and top-hung top lights and wired glass, with projecting concrete cills.

The north elevation comprises the plain wall of the north gable with a later flat-roofed rear extension to the right. The main gable is similar to the south gable but contains no openings. The stonework has modern reticulated pointing. The extension wall is cement rendered and keyed as on the south side, with rectangular flush timber double doors in plain rendered reveals and a flat roof matching the rear extension.

The building stands facing the main road, set back from it with a small concrete area in front bounded by a low cement-rendered wall with concrete copings surmounted by iron railings. A centrally positioned pedestrian gate of ironwork is set between square rendered piers with weathered concrete caps, with a similar small pier at the south corner. A steel flagpole with concrete posts stands to the right in the concrete area. The concrete area is bounded to the south by a rubble stone retaining wall to the raised garden of an adjacent property and to the north by concrete posts and wire fencing. Concrete paths cross each gable end. The rear boundary is formed by a concrete retaining wall and basalt rock face of elevated ground beyond. The building stands in a rural location in open countryside with a few houses in close proximity.