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New Barrack Tavern, Sheffield: North

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Operator: Castle Rock
601 Penistone Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield: North, S6 2GA (View on Google Map)

Included on the Regional Inventory of historic pub interiors, this multi-roomed pub has an original 1936 floor plan. It has a ‘Gilmour’ branded door step, some original windows and distinctive and colourful exterior tiles. Available are up to five guest beers, including seasonal ales from Castle Rock. Home-cooked food is available daily.

Winner of a 2014 SIBA Best Local Award, the front snug has a local sports theme, while the lounge features live bands at weekends and a comedy club on the first Sunday of the month. Outside is an award-winning, heated, covered patio garden.

2015 saw an extension and the creation of a new function room with its own bar and toilets. In addition to hosting some of the comedy and music nights, this room is also available for hire. The pub is handy for both Owlerton and Hillsborough Stadiums and the annual Tramlines Music Festival Main Stage.

In 2018 a new bottle room was converted from kitchen, with bottles, cans, five ciders & perries in boxes. On the main bar are nine real ales, two hand pulled ciders, five craft keg beers, two wheat beers, two keg ciders, four lagers and one stout, 25 lines in total. The function room has three hand pumps and three keg lines.

CAMRA Yorkshire Cider Pub of the Year 2019.

Historic Interest

On the CAMRA National Inventory of pubs with interiors of Regional Importance.

Information for this venue is provided by the Sheffield & District Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Sheffield District (B)
Last updated
20/04/2024
Last surveyed
26/02/2020
Pub ID
SHF/468
Asset of Community Value

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed status: Not listed

Rebuilt in 1936 by Gilmour’s and given a striking ‘art-deco-ish’ frontage. It has good original windows and an interior that is at its authentic best in the front-left public bar, the tiled entrance and the corridor lobby (with its curved 1936 bar-counter).

The front room at right has been opened to the corridor and, like the back smoke room, has no old fittings. The room further right is newly converted from a former shop. The room behind the bar was converted from a kitchen in 2018.

General information about historic pub interiors

A Duncan Gilmour’s pub which in 1936 was re-built when the original stone built corner terrace pub was demolished and the footprint extended into the next-door cottage, resulting in a larger building which continued to utilise the original cellar. It has a striking exterior of red brick and yellow terracotta with a brown glazed stone dado (the Rutland Arms in Sheffield has a similar exterior). There are a number of original (or good copies) of Gilmour’s exterior windows including ‘Gilmour’s Windsor’ and ‘Billiard Room’. A three-quarter sized snooker table was removed about ten years ago. The floor plan is little altered as can be confirmed by the original plans in a frame on the wall of the smoke room.

On the staircase to the front door there is a ‘Gilmour’s’ step. The lobby has a terrazzo floor and wall tiling to two-thirds height in mainly a cream colour. A door on the left leads to the pubic bar which has a terrazzo floor, inter-war fixed seating. The bar counter is original 1936 one but has been moved slightly back as indicated by where the terrazzo floor stops short of it and some new tiled floor. The bar back fitting is more modern.

The lobby bar has the original curved bar and a terrazzo floor which extends into the far left room. Until the summer of 2018, the latter was a kitchen. It is now a sympathetically converted drinking area and bottle-shop. The bar area includes the remnants of an off-sales hatch - the off sales door with its ‘Off Sales’ etched window is situated in High House Terrace. It is currently covered by an advertising board.

With the exception of the, now demolished, outside toilets, the 1936 floor plan remains: the public bar, with original bench seating, the corridor bar, a large concert room and a smaller back room. Contrary to many assumptions, the rear right room (now the pool room) despite having two ceiling heights was part of the 1936 rebuild (the ‘Smoke Room’) and is not a later addition.

To the rear was originally a yard which included outside toilets. The only internal change of use is that the scullery has become the men’s toilet, with the ladies a 2002 addition at the rear of the property.

The yard has become an attractive award-winning beer garden which has further extended into the yard of the adjoining building. Until the early 1990’s, this neighbouring building included a shop which extended outwards. This extension was demolished when Penistone Road was widened. At that time, it was ‘Carter’s Sandwich Shop.’

The lounge displays some original plans and various photographs. 2015 saw an extension, into what was originally the neighbouring shop, and the creation of a new function room with its own bar and toilets. This utilises floorboards from an upstairs room to create the bar front. The remainder of the building is used for storage.

The pub name refers to the nearby Hillsborough Barracks which date from 1848, replacing an inadequate barracks at Hillfoot. In 1932, the complex was sold to Burdall’s Ltd, a manufacturing chemist noted for its gravy salt.

General information about historic pub interiors
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Opening
Monday
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Thursday
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
4:00pm - 11:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 11:00pm
Sunday
1:00pm - 8:00pm
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Current beers

This Pub serves 6 changing beers and 3 regular beers.

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Facilities
Sports TV Sports TV
Sky Sports
Live Music Live Music
Garden Garden
Award-winning, heated, covered patio garden
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Events Events
Comedy club; film nights; quiz nights
Function Room Function Room
Games Games
Pool & darts
Real Fire Real Fire
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Real Cider Real Cider
Changing
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LocAle LocAle
Quiet Quiet
Transport
Close to bus routes (50m)
First South Yorkshire: 8, 8a; Stagecoach Sheffield: 7, 86
Close to metro (300m)
Bamforth Street
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