Gaiety

Opened in 1838 as The Music Hall. The name did not then have the variety theatre overtones it later acquired. It was, in fact, a small concert hall at first floor level above a lecture room, but became a variety house, as the Gaiety Music Hall, in 1884. The auditorium was reconstructed at various times. It is now store room of a shop. All that remains of note is the fine, classical, ashlar façade in three bays, the three storeys linked by tall arched shallow recesses in the two left-hand bays, containing doors and windows. The right hand, wider, bay has a tall arched and pediment-hooded entrance door, above which is a tablet inscribed MUSIC HALL 1838 and an arched window with a bracketed and balustraded false balcony. Entablature and blocking to parapet.