public house — Aungier Street

Corner-sited end-of-terrace four-storey over concealed basement public house, built c. 1890, with three-bay elevation to Digges Street Upper and two-bay elevation to Aungier Street. Now disused. Brick and stone pub shopfront spanning ground floor. Earlier three-bay three-storey rendered block abutting east elevation with rendered shopfront. Currently vacant and boarded up. Hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and tall profiled red brick chimneystack rising from north-side elevation. Roof set behind red brick parapet with granite coping and cast-iron guttering and plastic downpipes (to side elevations). Flat roof to rendered east block hidden behind parapet. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with flush yellow brick courses at sill and impost levels. Cement rendered east and north elevations. Roughcast cement rendered walls to east block. Gauged brick segmental-headed window openings with granite sills and boarded up windows. Square-headed window openings to east block with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and boarded up windows. Original shopfront comprises series of display windows with granite sills (now boarded up) on panelled red brick stall risers and chamfered granite plinth course, flanked by stop-chamfered red brick piers on granite bases with elaborate Portland limestone stiff-leaf capitals. Angled corner entrance bay with Kilkenny limestone column to corner, full-span stucco fascia with deeply moulded dentilled continuous cornice. Full-span ruled-and-lined render shopfront to east block with rendered fascia and hood cornice. Corner-sited at junction between Aungier Street and Diggs Street Upper.