Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB15/02/052

Address :
Grange O'Neiland School 48 Annagora Road Portadown Craigavon Co Armagh BT62 4JE

Townland:
Grange Lower

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
20/05/1981 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Hall

Former Use
School

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
200/1

IG Ref:
H9524 5381

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Owner Category

Church - C of I

Exterior Description And Setting

A single storey rendered building with paired octagonal chimneys and decorative barges and eaves boards. Main entrance faces west. West elevation comprises a 5-bay central block with a projecting gabled wing to each end. Roofs of Bangor blue slates in regular courses with oversailing eaves; central block has two sets of paired octagonal chimneys in cut stone, painted, and two louvred ventilators on the ridge; decorative bargeboards and eaves boards. Walls are smooth rendered, lined and blocked with painted cut stone quoins to extremities of wing gables. Cast iron gutters and downpipes. Windows to central block are coupled rectangular metal lozenge glazed side-hung casements with top-hung fixed light and horizontally pivoting opening light, with timber frames, transoms and mullions; set in chamfered reveals, with projecting stone cills, and surmounted by moulded rectangular labels. Main entrance comprises a pair of tongued and grooved sheeted timber doors set in chamfered reveals with rectangular label moulding over; projecting in front of it is an open porch comprising a pair of cut stone pillars with pilaster responds; the openings between the pillars and pilasters later closed by rendered infill side walls; moulded frieze; triangular pediment; cement screed doorstep. Front gable of wing to right contains a large modern rectangular timber 3-light window with horizontal panel division, containing fixed lights to each side of central opening lights. Left-hand wall of projecting wing to right contains a doorway, as previous to main entrance, but without porch. Front gable of wing to left contains a canted bay window set in a segmental arched recess. Timber frames to fixed light windows with projecting cill with panelled stone plinth walls below; slated roof. North elevation: roofing and walling as previous; two windows to left of a projecting gabled porch and one window to right of it. Windows are later modern rectangular timber fixed lights with top-hung vents set in plain reveals with moulded labels. Porch gable contains a modern rectangular glazed timber door set in plain reveals with moulded label; in apex of gable in a small circular window with cusped trefoil tracery. South elevation: roofing, walling and eaves boards as previous; one short square smooth rendered chimney with octagonal stoneware pot at right-hand end of main roof; pvc gutter and downpipes but some cast iron downpipes retained. Two windows to left of gabled projecting bay, metal lozenge glazed, in timber frames as previous to entrance front but set in plain reveals without label mouldings. One main window to right of gabled projection, as previous but with modern replacement single-pane lower lights. Extending to the right is a lower roofed extension: walling and roofing as previous but with smaller slates; plain timber eaves board. Rear elevation: rear of main block has walling of roughcast render; roof slated as previous; timber eaves board with wooden panelled soffit; pvc gutter; cast iron downpipe. Four large window openings originally, two containing metal fixed lights and pivoting lights, one now blocked with smooth render; one partially blocked up with cement, keyed for finishing coat, containing a modern pvc window of fixed light, top-hung vent and casement; concrete cills. One doorway containing a modern flush timber door set in plain timber frame. Projecting forward at the left-hand end is the main block of the south wing; roof slated as previous; pvc gutter; timber eaves board and barge boards with decorative scalloping. Walls smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked. Projecting forward from that is a gabled extension to south wing: walls and roof as previous, but plain timber eaves board and barge boards; pvc rainwater goods. Projecting forward at the right-hand end is the north wing, of 1½ storeys: roof slated as previous; modern flush rooflight; gable has original ornamental bargeboards; side wall has plain timber eaves board. Walls are rendered roughcast; cast iron gutter and downpipes. One chimney on gable, smooth rendered. One window in ground floor of gable, modern rectangular pvc with concrete cill; two windows to attic, semi-circular arched timber fixed lights with stone cills. One window in side wall, modern rectangular pvc. One doorway in side wall, modern rectangular glazed timber. SETTING: The building stands in a rural area, set well back from the public road, on rising ground, within its own grounds which are shared with a church (HB15/02/051). Site bounded by hedges and wooden fences. Grassed areas to north and south of building; adjoining field to the east beyond the boundary. To the north stands a church, with a tarmac area immediately in front of the school. Immediately to the rear of the building is an enclosed yard, approached by a gateway containing a pair of iron framed corrugated iron gates, mounted on a rendered pilaster-pier attached to the school and a painted stone square pier. Along east side of yard is a single storey outbuilding, a water tower, and toilets. Outbuilding: hipped slated roof; walls of rubble stonework with red brick dressings to openings. Openings are, from left: a segmental archway containing a recessed brick dressed rectangular doorway; a rectangular flat-arched doorway, now closed with concrete blockwork; and a segmental archway containing a pair of timber boarded doors with iron framing. Water tower is of red brick, on a square plan, partly rising from rubble stone and rendered walls; flat arched doorway in base; flat arched openings at higher level containing timber louvers; steep pyramidal slated roof, oversailing the walls, with turned timber finial. To the south of the water tower are rendered screen walls to small toilets in semi-derelict condition. Rear yard surfaced in concrete paving; boundary walling of rubble stonework, partly rendered.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1860. Stylistically it may be dated to the 1840s. The hall at the south end was used for a long time as a Church of Ireland church, from at least as early as 1848 as there is a record of baptisms from that date until it was superseded by the new church of St Paul built nearby to the west in 1926. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1860, Co Armagh 9. Secondary Sources 1. G.H. Bassett, The book of County Armagh (Dublin, 1888), p 321 (reference to a Church of Ireland at Diamond). 2. J.B. Leslie, Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Dundalk, 1911), p 224.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance X. Local Interest V. Authorship

Evaluation

This is an early Victorian school in a restrained Tudor Revival style which retains some of its original features. It forms a pleasing group with the adjacent church.

General Comments

Date of Survey

31 December 2004