Guinness Brewery — Dublin 8

Terraced seven-bay four-storey over basement former house, built c.1770, extended by attached seven-bay four-storey office building, built c.1865, having three-bay elevation to east. 1960s office building attached to rear.and renovated c.1870, with extensive office block extension c.1960 to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as offices. Pitched roof hidden behind parapet to front (north). Cut granite cornice and capping to parapet. Brown brick chimneystacks having brick cornice and clay chimney pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having painted masonry string course to ground floor and rendered walls to basement level. Square-headed window openings having painted granite sills and red brick voussoirs. Nine-over-six pane timber sash windows to ground and first floor, six-over-six pane timber sash windows to second floor, replacement uPVC windows to third floor and replacement timber windows to basement. Round-headed door opening having carved masonry surround comprising engaged Doric columns supporting fluted frieze with ox skull motifs and cornice with mutules and rosettes. Timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight approached by granite steps with cast-iron bootscrapes, flanked by cast-iron railings and enclosed by cast-iron double-leaf gates. Granite plinth walls with cast-iron railings enclosing basement area.