The Stone Roses Bar, Wellington Street
Location/Address
32 Wellington Street, Barnsley S70 1SW
Type
Description
Three storey brick-built building with ashlar detailing to doors and windows, string courses and quoins. The entrance is highly ornamental, contained within a broad archway and consisting of a tall doorway with rubbed brick arch between two elaborate piers and flanked by similarly arched windows. Transomed and mullioned windows light the first floor, with three side-by-side windows at the second floor with a central attic window immediately above. To either side of the latter are ocular windows with stone surrounds. The elevation is gabled with ashlar blocks providing intermittent steps. The south-east elevation has regular windows with former taking in doors towards the centre.
Wellington Street was one of a number of new, wide streets created in 1815 by John Whitworth around the earlier medieval town centre, including Pitt Street (1815), Peel Street (1830) and Eldon Street (1840). This building was built between 1892 and 1901 on the site of a former timber yard and sawmill (disused by 1888 but previously operated by William Neatby & Sons), possibly following the erection of the adjacent Salvation Army Barracks in c.1895. The 1901 Census records the building as the “Barnsley and District Grocers’ Company Warehouse”. The Barnsley and District Retail Grocers Co. Ltd. was registered in 1892 for the purpose of enabling “retail grocers, drysalters, provision dealers and confectioners of Barnsley and district to combine to purchase in large qualities, at first hand, goods which at present they have to buy from various sources” In more recent years it has been used as a video shop, club and latterly the Stone Roses bar. It was damaged by a fire in May 2023.
Sources: White’s Director of Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley, 1879; Ordnance Survey maps of 1889 and 1906; J. Whitworth connection: https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2020/11/16/eldon-street-heritage-action-zone/; Formation of Barnsley and District Retail Grocer’s Company Limited: Sheffield Independent - Saturday 09 April 1892 p.6.
Statement of Significance
Asset type
BuildingAge
1892-1901Rarity
A commercial warehouse of a scale and quality of design that is unusual for the area.Architectural and Artistic Interest
Fine example of well-preserved high-quality eclectic late Victorian period commercial architecture, clearly intended to form a set piece within the streetscape.Group Value
Forms a group with the former Salvation Army Barracks adjacent, and the Grade II Listed former Barnsley Co-operative Society building to the south in both representing high-quality commercial buildings.Historic Interest
Commercial warehouse built for the Barnsley and District Retail Grocer’s Company Limited.Landmark Status
The building, whilst presenting a narrow frontage to the street, gains prominence from its scale and architectural design.
Date Listed
07 May 2024
Last Updated
03 May 2024
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