| Type: | street |
| Road Name: | Pirie Street |
| State: | sa |
| City: | Adelaide city centre |
| Urban: | yes |
| Length: | 1.1 |
| Est: | 1837 |
| Direction A: | West |
| Direction B: | East |
| Coordinates A: | -34.9258°N 138.5998°W |
| Coordinates B: | -34.9251°N 138.6118°W |
| Pushpin Label Position A: | left |
| Pushpin Label Position B: | right |
| Alternative Location Map: | Australia South Australia City of Adelaide |
| End A: | King William Street Adelaide |
| End B: | East Terrace Adelaide |
| Exits: | |
| Lga: | City of Adelaide |
Pirie Street is a road on the east side of the Adelaide city centre, South Australia.[1] It runs east–west, between East Terrace and King William Street. After crossing King William Street, it continues as Waymouth Street. It forms the southern boundary of Hindmarsh Square which is in the centre of the north-east quadrant of the city centre.
Pirie Street is served by a stop on the Glenelg tram line on King William Street. It is mainly occupied by office buildings, restaurants, and nightspots. It is one of the narrower streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1ch wide, and has a bicycle lane.
It has a number of notable buildings, including several heritage-listed ones, and was once home to the biggest brewery in the colony of South Australia, the Adelaide Brewery. In 2019 it was used as a location for the film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe, substituting for Cape Town, South Africa.
Pirie Street was named after Sir John Pirie, Lord Mayor of London and a founding director of the South Australian Company.[2]
The Pirie Street Methodist Church was located on the site that is now the Adelaide Town Hall office building, with the 1862 Methodist Meeting Hall (see below) behind.
The Adelaide City Council headquarters are on Pirie Street.
The Pirie Street Brewery, later known as Adelaide Brewery,[3] occupied a number of buildings down Wyatt Street, as well as no. 113 Pirie, which was occupied by the Hill Smith Gallery from July 1983[4] for 37 years.[5] While no. 113 has not been heritage-listed, the other brewery buildings in Wyatt street were listed on the South Australian Heritage Register on 20 November 1986.[6]
Buildings which are heritage-listed at state level are:[7]
Other buildings which are heritage-listed as of local heritage interest are:[7]
In March 2019 a section of Pirie Street was closed for the day and transformed to represent Cape Town in the 1970s, for filming of the thriller film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.[13] [14]
Pirie Street is also the location of a stop on the Glenelg tram line.[15]