The following report provides a summary of the investigative and emergency temporary works undertaken between April and July 2025. Temporary works were installed in order to stabilise the existing property due to its dilapidated and unsafe structural condition.
This report has been prepared at the request of Greene King Brewing and Retailing Ltd (GK), the current owners and custodians of the property. The property was purchased by GK in January 2025.
This report should be read in conjunction with structural reports previously prepared by this practice; S4510-R01 + R02, issued in January 2025, and subsequent inspection reports undertaken throughout the investigative, monitoring and temporary propping phases of the works.
Further to instructions received from Greene King Brewing & Retailing Ltd, PSA Design Ltd were requested to visit ‘The Dirty Bottles’ restaurant, bar and hotel, 28-34 Narrowgate, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1JG.
The purpose of our visit was to inspect 28 Narrowgate, Alnwick, following the recent acquisition of the property (by GK Brewing and Retailing Ltd) and following concerns raised with regards to the structural condition of the building.
During our inspection we were also requested to inspect and comment upon the condition of a timber framed pergola within the rear beer garden of No. 30 Narrowgate and to comment on the condition of a high-level chimney stack above the party wall of 30-32 Narrowgate.
Our inspection was undertaken on Wednesday 8th January 2025.
Resource entry for file: ACS News 2022Q2.pdf
Annual General Meeting........................2
Historical map: next phase.....................3
Civic Societies & the planning system..4
Cliff Pettit & Bill Hugonin......................6
Narrowgate developments.....................6
News in brief............................................7
We remember them still..........................7
Education in Alnwick..............................8
Planning matters....................................10
Quiz: Gateposts......................................11
About Alnwick Civic Society...............12
Who's Who?............................................12
Diary dates..............................................12
Historic England listing: 28, Narrowgate
Keys to the past: 28, Narrowgate
T. Harrison on Woods map
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Alnwick, Narrowgate Street, July 10, 1830.
Self-acting water closets
T HARRISON, Plumber, respectfully invites the Public to an Inspection of the Patent improved SELF- ACTING WATER CLOSET, which he believes to be quite new in this Part of the Country, with the Exception of one, which he has just fitted up as most complete of its Kind. Its Movements are so complete that it thoroughly cleanses and purifies itself instantly after Use, without the least personal Interference, at the same time preventing the Return of the smallest Particle of offensive Air to affect the Place; it may, therefore, be erected in any Situation of a House without the least Annoyance. The Invention has stood the Test of Trial, under the immediate Inspection of many eminent professional and scientific Gentlemen, and for Simplicity and Utility has been pronounced very superior to any other hitherto produced. T. Harrison solicits the Pleasure of a Call, at his Residence, to inspect the Machinery, where its great Advantages are instantly shewn, and need only be seen to be approved.