Avoca

Detached gable-fronted single-storey hall or meeting house, built c.1850, with entrance porch to west. Now used as a private house. Set back from street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, rendered chimneystack and timber bargeboards to gables. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with crenellated parapet over entrance door. Pointed-arched window opening with hoodmoulding and replacement stained glass window with painted sill. Pointed-arched door opening with hoodmoulding and replacement timber battened door. Set back from street behind random rubble wall with cut stone capping surmounted by wrought- and cast-iron railings with spear-headed finials and gate giving access to front site.

This attractive hall or meeting house, nestled between houses, stands out in the domestic streetscape. The façade is enlivened by a stained glass window and modestly designed side porch. Located across the street from a Society of Friends' meeting house, this building played an important role in the social fabric of Birr.