Where is All Bar One?

All Bar One is at the Cornwall Buildings, 43 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 3NY

 

In brief

A wine bar on the ground floor of the Cornwall Buildings which was built near the end of the 19th Century for the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund (a low-cost medical insurance society).

All Bar One, Newhall Street (May 2022). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Cornwall Buildings - history

The Cornwall Buildings is a corner building at 43 - 51 Newhall Street, and on Cornwall Street

All Bar One, Newhall Street (Janaury 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

It was built during 1898-1900 for the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund (a low-cost medical insurance society).

Cornwall Buildings, Newhall Street (Janaury 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Shaped gables and two-storey canted bays. Big entrance portal with a shaped parapet and canted corners, and stylized flower sculpture.

The octagonal corner turret picks up the shaped parapet.

Cornwall Buildings, Newhall Street (Janaury 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

The round arch of its ground-floor door repeats in turn down Cornwall Street, where the far end was largely rebuilt after the Second World War.

Cornwall Buildings, Newhall Street (Janaury 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

It has been a Grade II listed building since 1982.

All Bar One has been on the ground floor of the building since at least the 2000s.

All Bar One, Newhall Street (Janaury 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Cleaning the windows of the Cornwall Buildings

From time to time, you might see men abseiling down the building cleaning the windows of the Cornwall Buildings.

It might take several days to do both the Newhall Street and Cornwall Street sides.

All Bar One, Newhall Street (July 2018). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Interiors

The interior of All Bar One Newhall Street during the Christmas Party season of December 2022.

All Bar One, Newhall Street (December 2022). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Contact details

All Bar One

0121 212 2551