St Andrew's Church of Ireland Hall, Ardtrea Road, Stewartstown, Dungannon, BT71 5LY is a Grade B2 listed building in the Mid Ulster local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 26 January 1976.

St Andrew's Church of Ireland Hall, Ardtrea Road, Stewartstown, Dungannon, BT71 5LY

WRENN ID
muffled-stronghold-ebony
Grade
B2
Local Planning Authority
Mid Ulster
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
26 January 1976
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

St Andrew's Church of Ireland Hall is a single storey rectangular hall of masonry construction, built in 1860 and designed by architect William Joseph Barre. It was erected at the expense of J.G. Beresford, the Lord Primate of Ireland, as recorded in a sandstone datestone on the building inscribed 'Erected by J.G. Beresford, Lord Primate, A.D. 1860'. Originally constructed as a school, it now serves as a church hall.

The building is executed in a simple Gothic Revival style and is nicely proportioned and picturesque in appearance. It is constructed of random rubble blackstone with a moulded plinth and block dressings, with quoins of hammer dressed sandstone. The roof is of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with a hipped form, and incorporates a diagonally placed timber ventilation turret of square plan with timber louvres and a steep lead-dressed cap. A shaped timber finial crowns the apex of the gabled porch. Barge boards and eaves boards are of timber, and rainwater goods are of moulded metal with circular cast iron downpipes.

The main south elevation comprises two windows to each side of a central gabled porch. Windows throughout are rectangular two-light metal lozenge-paned casements. The south gable of the porch features a pair of coupled Gothic arched windows glazed similarly to the main windows, with the datestone above. The main entrance in the west side of the porch comprises a two-centred arched ledged timber door recessed in a chamfered arched block surround. The east side of the porch contains a single light casement. The west gable of the main block contains a three-light window surmounted by a two-centred relieving arch of sandstone, with a narrow blind Gothic arched lancet in the gable apex above it. The east gable is similar to the west.

The building retains the essential elements of its plan form, characteristic of a small school of the period, and retains most of its original exterior appearance and character. However, the north or rear elevation has been degraded by the original wall being covered by a full-length later lean-to extension in smooth cement render crudely scratched to simulate rubble stonework, with a metal roof covering and modern uPVC rainwater goods. This extension has modern rectangular metal fixed lights and opening lights, and a modern rectangular flush timber door on its west side.

The hall is of local interest and social importance and has historical significance as a small building project of the Lord Primate. It stands in a rural setting on the east side of a minor public road, set back slightly from the road with a cement paved area immediately in front. To the rear is a small grassy plot. The site is bounded to the east by a hedge and to the west by a concrete post and wire fence, with fields beyond. It forms part of an interesting group of associated buildings with the church it serves and the former rectory, both standing on the opposite side of the road a short distance away, these structures standing in comparative isolation in this locality.

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