Masonic Hall (former railway station), 24 Main Street, Caledon, Co Tyrone, BT68 4TZ is a listed building in the Mid Ulster local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Masonic Hall (former railway station), 24 Main Street, Caledon, Co Tyrone, BT68 4TZ
- WRENN ID
- sombre-soffit-ivory
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a relatively small and plain two-storey red brick former railway station built in 1892–93. It now serves as a Masonic Hall. The building's unusual location in the middle of a terrace on the east side of Main Street reflects the exceptional character of the Clogher Valley Railway it served, which ran down the middle of Caledon's Main Street itself.
The front elevation faces west and is entirely in red brick, arranged asymmetrically. At ground floor level, the far right contains a panelled timber door set within a segmental arched opening. To its left is a large segmental arched vehicle opening. To the left of this is a relatively large window with mullioned and transomed frames; the smaller upper lights are filled with small square panes in typical Edwardian fashion. Between these windows is a segmental arched recess which was originally a doorway to the waiting room but has since been neatly filled in with brick. Above this former doorway, the outline of a large pitched roof hood on brackets can still be traced. The first floor has three evenly spaced windows. The outer windows match those on the ground floor, while the central window is considerably larger and partly set within a gable with overhanging shaped barges.
The rear elevation is largely constructed of greyish limestone rubble. At ground floor level, the far right shows the back end of the vehicle entrance, its arch head dressed in red brick. Immediately to its left is a small sash window with horizontal glazing bars (2/2), and to the far left is a larger similar window. The first floor has a window of the previous type at centre right, and a much smaller plain sash window at far right. The right-hand third of the rear façade projects slightly forward and has flush in-out stone quoins to its left edge. Three of the rear windows have wrought iron security bars. The gabled roof is slated with an overhang to the front. A large brick chimneystack rises roughly from the centre of the roof's rear, terminating in two somewhat Tudoresque diamond-plan brick-built pots. Cast iron rainwater goods are present. To the left of the vehicle archway's back end is a vehicle gateway with simple 19th-century-style wrought iron gates of slightly uneven heights, stretching between the rear façade and a tall round gate pillar. This pillar stands at the west end of a tall rubble wall separating this property's ground from that to the north.
The Clogher Valley Railway, originally known as the Clogher Valley Tramway, opened in 1887, running on reserved track beside roads and through fields, and, in the manner of Austrian and North American practice, down the middle of the main streets of Fivemiletown and Caledon. Before the station's construction, the railway rented a single room elsewhere on Main Street for use as a waiting room and parcel receiving office. The station building was constructed in 1892–93 to replace this arrangement. The ground floor presumably contained the waiting room and ticket office; these spaces were later blocked up. The first floor, presumably the station master's office, was converted to the Masonic hall. The Clogher Valley Railway closed in 1941, after which the building began its secondary use as a Masonic lodge. The property is of industrial archaeological interest and lies within a conservation area.
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