Guinness Brewery

Attached complex-plan three-bay single-storey physiotherapy clinic, built c.1910, having single-storey entrance porch to front (north) elevation and later three-bay single-storey extension to east, built c.1940. Now disused. Hipped artificial slate roof. Red brick chimneystack. Metal vents to roof apex. Red brick walls laid in English bond, header bond to porch to east. Square-headed window openings having cut granite sills. Some one-over-one timber sash windows and timber casement windows having external security grilles. Timber-framed strip window to entrance porch. Square-headed door opening having half-glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to east porch having recent metal doors.

This clinic is part of the Guinness Brewery complex founded in 1759 by Arthur Guinness. Together with the adjoining medical dispensary it stands as a reminder of the progressive employment terms offered by Guinness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by providing healthcare to employees and their families. The physiotherapy department provided “massage, radiant heat, galvanism, faradism, diathermy, high frequency, ultra-violet light, and infra-red ray therapy”, according to a 1939 visitor's guide. Early fabric remains in the brickwork, windows and roof structure. Good use is made of the unusual header bond to create the curved walls of the porch to the east, which appears to be a later addition.