title: Crown Bar & Dining Rooms
location: Great Victoria Street | BELFAST
Completed: March 2016
Client: Mitchells & Butlers
project manager: Mitchells & Butlers
quantity surveyor: Mitchells & Butlers
architect: ARC Design Associates
services engineer: Mitchells & Butlers
Conservators: The National Trust
project value: £0.5million
Restoration of the Listed Crown Bar, and the refurbishment and fitout of the non-listed DIning Rooms. The Crown Bar is an original Victorian gin-palace owned by the National Trust and visited by hundreds of thousands of overseas guests.
The restoration of the bar included improvements to the glass, mirrors, woodwork and ornate tiles. The bar is in a busy city centre location, pollutants from traffic covered the external tiles in dust and left the internal snugs dull.