Stewart's Wine Barrel

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A two-storey/ two-bay polychromatic brick building set in terrace on north side of Monaghan Street.

Gabled asbestos tiled roof with red brick chimney to each gable. The chimneys are stepped and banded with courses of yellow and black brick and coped with concrete. Ogee cast-iron rainwater goods over yellow-brick brackets, with down pipe at right; asbestos gutters at rear.

The ground floor of the façade has been cement rendered and painted over a projecting rendered base course. The first floor is of red brick over a protruding granite string course which also forms the cills to the windows. The façade is embellished with two bands of yellow brick - one half way up the window jambs (at meeting rail level), and the other at window head level. Both bands are three bricks high and embellished with crosses formed with black and red bricks. The eaves brackets are underlined by a course of black brick.

At left on façade is a semicircular-headed doorway with pole moulded reveal. Set into it is a modern nine-panelled timber door over which is a semicircular transom infilled with timber boarding. To right of door is a pair of 2/2 sliding sash windows in polemoulded reveals. The windows' semicircular heads share a Corinthian headed demicolonette resting on their common painted granite cill. Affixed to cill is a cast-iron grille with quatrefoil motifs protecting the bottom sash. Just right of centre is a second wider entrance, the surround of which is identical to that at left. It contains a modern aluminium door with glazed semicircular transom and a side light at right. A modern boxed roller shutter has been affixed at front. To right of this door is a large shop window. It comprises four fixed painted timber windows (with four transoms over) over a painted moulded granite cill and set in a roll moulded chamfered reveal. The wall below this opening has two recessed rectangular panels. There is a boxed metal roller shutter over. A modern plastic shop sign runs the length of the facade below the string course; it reads "Stewarts Wine Barrel".

There are four shallow painted timber pilasters to ground floor, all with a recessed vertical panel - one at each end of building, and one on either side of main entrance to shop. The outstepping of their stone base courses indicates that these features are original, not a later addition.

The first floor is lit by four equally spaced 1/1 sliding sash windows. The upper band of yellow brick is punctuated with three sets of black bricks where it crosses each segmental window head. A metal beam projects at middle of façade from just below eaves level. A sign formerly hung from it, the swinging action of which has gouged out a groove in the wall below.

The right gable is abutted by a building of relatively recent construction. The left gable is cement rendered and has a window on left at first floor, now infilled with concrete blocks.

The rear facade is cement rendered throughout. It is abutted at right by a lower two-storey return. At left on ground floor is an infilled window. There is also an infilled window in line with it at first floor level.

The return has a pitched asbestos-slate roof, and cement rendered chimney over its end gable. A modern single-storey flat roof extension abuts this gable (of no interest). The left cheek of first floor rear return has an infilled window. The rear face at right has modern metal sheeted door.

The gable extension has a metal-sheeted door facing the rear yard. The extension in the angle has a door and window on its end elevation, and two modern windows on its left cheek. The right cheek also has an infilled door and window.

Historical information

This building first appears in the 1879 Valuation revision book. It is first cited as a public house in the 1893 valuation.

Primary Sources:

1. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI – VAL 12B/15/1C, p.299.
2. Valuation revision books, 1866-1930, PRONI -VAL 12B/15/1G.

Secondary Sources:

1. 2nd Resurvey pro-forma dated October 1997

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

A two-storey/ two-bay polychromatic brick building. The use of polychromatic brick and paired columns is typical of this area and period, and can be seen at 19 Monaghan St (HB16/28/071) and Lower Catherine St (HB16/28/066, HB16/28/067). Retaining some original features, the level of alterations and loss of original material are extensive.