The Sarsfield Bar — Bank Place

Corner-sited end-of-terrace five-bay four-storey over concealed basement red brick building, built c. 1775. Two-bay four-storey over concealed basement north-facing side elevation, facing Bank Place, forming one of a terrace of three houses of similar design and patronage. Now incorporating a rendered shopfront, c. 1880, at ground floor level of both elevations. Hipped natural slate roof with ridge parallel with Rutland Street, partially concealed by parapet wall. Large rendered chimneystack to east. Cast-iron downpipe. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with rusticated limestone ashlar quoins to corner only. Rendered ground floor level shopfront terminating at first floor sill level with a rendered platband. Rendered fascia name plate to both elevations, c. 1880, with raised lettering reading on Rutland Street: The Sarsfield Bar, and Spirit Store, to Bank Place elevation. Square-headed window openings, red brick flat arches with limestone ashlar end blocks and stepped keystones, rendered reveals and profiled limestone sills. Replacement two-over-two timber sash windows, timber casement and uPVC casement windows. Original square-headed door opening to Rutland Street elevation with painted lugged and kneed limestone architrave, and double-leaf panelled timber door, c. mid nineteenth century, with plain glass overlight. Secondary square-headed door opening to southernmost bay of west-facing side elevation with rendered reveals, and inset doorcase doorframe comprising slightly rebated flat-panelled uprights, joined by profiled lintel above which a timber-framed overlight rises; early to mid nineteenth century flat-panelled timber door and limestone threshold step. Centrally-placed square-headed door opening to Bank Place elevation, of late nineteenth century origins, squeezed into existing window pier, with raised and fielded panelled timber door and plain overlight. Opening onto recently covered basement areas to Bank Place and Rutland Street.