Guinness Brewery

Turbine house in Dublin, Ireland, dating from 1945–1950

Detached five-bay split-level power station, built 1948, comprising central single-storey projecting turbine room flanked by lower single-storey wings to front (south), taller boiler house block flanked by lower two-bay double-height wings to rear (north), octagonal-profile industrial chimneys adjoining building at ground floor level to rear. Five-bay single-storey extension to east and west elevations of front blocks, single-bay single-storey extension at first floor level to east of front block, matching screen wall at first floor level to west of front block. Now disused. Flat roofs throughout, hidden behind raised brick parapets with carved granite coping, brick fluting to corners. Brown brick, laid in English garden wall bond, to walls. Square-headed brick niches to front of central boiler house block, and to later extensions. Cut granite platband to ground floor level. Cut granite plinth course to front. 'GUINNESS' insignia over entrance to front. Black brick to top of chimneys. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, steel windows and replacement uPVC windows. Bull-nosed brick surround to vertical strip windows to central bay to front and rear of boiler house. Square-headed door opening with steel roller shutter, flanked by vertical strip windows with overlight, all with chamfered reveals to front. Square-headed door opening with raised red brick surround and d

Type:
Turbine house

Period:
1945–1950

Where:
Dublin, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.29°W

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