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Guinness Storehouse

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Guinness Storehouse
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Practicing the perfect pour · Photo: William J Sisti from Morristown, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
None of the early Brewery locomotives being entirely satisfactory, the Guinness Engineering Director, Mr Geoghegan, set about designing a locomotive possessing all their best features but without their handicaps. The result was an 0−4−0 side tank engine with horizontally mounted cylinders situated above the marine-type boiler driving through a dummy crankshaft and vertical connecting rods, which in turn drove the wheels. Instead of the cylinders being bolted to the boiler, they were fixed to the frames which were carried the full height of the locomotive above the top of the boiler. The side tanks were also attached to the frames. Another novel feature was the independent spring frame which consisted of eight steel leaves in pairs, two pairs on each side of the locomotive and one pair each above and below the axleboxes. It was attached to the front and back stays, so that by removing the pins and connecting rods, and with the locomotive lifted, the spring frame could be wheeled out from beneath the locomotive to receive attention and maintenance. The general layout of these engines was one of accessibility for repair but with maximum protection from dirt.
None of the early Brewery locomotives being entirely satisfactory, the Guinness Engineering Director, Mr Geoghegan, set about designing a locomotive possessing all their best features but without their handicaps. The result was an 0−4−0 side tank engine with horizontally mounted cylinders situated above the marine-type boiler driving through a dummy crankshaft and vertical connecting rods, which in turn drove the wheels. Instead of the cylinders being bolted to the boiler, they were fixed to the frames which were carried the full height of the locomotive above the top of the boiler. The side tanks were also attached to the frames. Another novel feature was the independent spring frame which consisted of eight steel leaves in pairs, two pairs on each side of the locomotive and one pair each above and below the axleboxes. It was attached to the front and back stays, so that by removing the pins and connecting rods, and with the locomotive lifted, the spring frame could be wheeled out from beneath the locomotive to receive attention and maintenance. The general layout of these engines was one of accessibility for repair but with maximum protection from dirt. · Photo: nzsteam · CC BY 2.0

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One word in the official record changes the whole story. It is one of the first examples of multiple-storey steel frame buildings in Ireland and the west elevation brickwork is believed to be an early example of cladding.
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.
It is one of the first examples of multiple-storey steel frame buildings in Ireland and the west elevation brickwork is believed to be an early example of cladding.
This former fermenting house was designed by A.H. Hignett and Sir William Arrol for the Guinness Brewery. A.H. Hignett was engineer-in-chief of the brewery from 1902 to 1918. It is one of the first examples of multiple-storey steel frame buildings in Ireland and the west elevation brickwork is believed to be an early example of cladding. Its decorative brick and granite detailing provide articulation and decoration to a standard that is not usually seen in industrial buildings. It retains its early form and exuberant character. It has an imposing presence on the surrounding urban landscape acting as a landmark for the largest city centre industrial site. The Guinness Brewery was founded in 1759, by Arthur Guinness. It first developed on the south side of Saint James's Gate and later expanded on all sides. Robinson Keefe & Devane (architects) and Ove Arup (engineers) designed the building's conversion to a visitor's centre and rooftop extension of c.1998. Now referred to as a storehouse, it was originally a fermenting house, where wort (the liquor from brewing the malt) was fermented for several days with brewer's yeast to turn sugar into alcohol.

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It is one of the first examples of multiple-storey steel frame buildings in Ireland and the west elevation brickwork is believed to be an early example of cladding.

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