The Butter Market

The Butter Market is a former butter warehouse, now functioning as a nightclub, built around 1835 by Fallows and Hart of Birmingham. The building is constructed of stucco and features a low pitched roof that is not visible. It is a high single-storey structure with seven bays facing Howard Street, and there are lower buildings added to the right, along with a five-bay range at the back. The right side has a three-window range next to a portico. The design is heavily influenced by Greek Revival style. The main range includes a central entrance block with high bases to the columns flanking a round-arched doorway that has a pully above it, along with a high entablature, cornice, and parapet with a blocking course. Each side of the entrance has two bays with a high plinth and parapet, featuring round-arched windows with iron glazing. The ends of the building terminate in stressed pedimented blocks, each with a high round-arched window in the pediment. The current doorway is located in the low single-storey additions to the right. The return elevation facing Wharf Road has a similar outer range that ends in a pedimented block, along with two stressed pedimented bays that have round-arched recesses containing windows and panelled loading doors. There are doorways and blocked windows set in a high plinth or basement storey, with vermiculated detailing in the right-hand block. Inside, the structure has been modified due to its change of use, but cast-iron columns remain, albeit encased. Originally, the warehouse served as a terminal warehouse for the Shrewsbury branch of the Shropshire Union canal before it was replaced by the railway.