Encased in a late Georgian building, The Crown Bar is however, one of the finest Victorian Gin Palaces to be found in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Maintaining this living piece of history for the National Trust requires specialist skills and a patient attention to detail. 

 

 

 

The Crown is also one of Northern Ireland’s leading attractions for locals and tourists alike.Across an Italianate tiled floor and beneath an ornate gas-lit plaster ceiling, a row of hand-carved stain-glass leather-seated snugs makes The Crown the institution that it is. And we are tasked with its maintenance and ultimately, its preservation.Listed internally and externally, our craftsmen – who could be fitting-out a 6,000m2 retail unit the following day such is their adaptability – are adept at maintaining this jewel in the National Trust’s crown.