Guinness Storehouse

Fermentation building in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1900–1910

Detached thirteen-bay seven-storey former fermenting house, built 1902-5, having recent circular-plan glazed roof extensions. Now in use as visitors' centre and museum. Hipped slate roofs hidden behind parapet, flat roofs to recent extensions. Crenellated parapets. Yellow brick walls having red brick strip buttresses and arcading. Rock-faced rusticated granite to ground floor. Ashlar granite quoins to first floor. Carved granite string course. Corbelled red brick pseudo-machicolations to fourth and seventh floors. Round-arched, segmental-arched and square-headed window openings having brick surrounds, granite sills and metal windows. Red brick hood mouldings to some seventh floor windows. Carved granite bowed oriel windows to first floor front (east) elevation. Round-arched door opening to front elevation having cut granite hood moulding supported by granite corbels. Multiple-pane metal framed overlight, timber battened double-leaf doors. Round-arched door openings to south elevation having rusticated granite surrounds. Metal clad walkway bridging Market Street at sixth floor level and metal clad walkway bridging Robert Street at first floor level. Limestone setts and tram tracks to Robert Street.

Type:
Fermentation building

Period:
1900–1910

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.29°W

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