Wellington Rooms (Now The Irish Centre)

The Wellington Rooms, now known as the Irish Centre, is a Grade II* listed building located on Mount Pleasant. It was designed by Edmund Aikin and constructed in 1815 as a fashionable private assembly room for the Wellington Club. The building features an ashlar exterior and a slate roof, with a one-storey facade that lacks windows. It has a moulded plinth, a top entablature, and a parapet. The facade has slight forward breaks at each end, flanked by Corinthian pilasters, and includes sculptured plaques on the blank walls.

At the center, there is a semi-circular projection with a tetrastyle Corinthian colonnade and antefixae above the entablature. The original open portico has since been filled in, and a new door has been added. Inside, the building includes a circular entrance hall and a ballroom featuring a relief frieze, gilt swags, and panelled walls, along with upper rooms and a card room, some of which are octagonal. The interior decoration is likely from the later 19th century, and the relief frieze is said to be by Flaxman. The exterior is completed with plain iron area railings and an iron lantern on a bracket over the entrance, while the brick return facade is adorned with stone pilastrade.