store/warehouse

Detached multiple-pile gable-fronted thirteen-bay two-storey bonded store, built 1866. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, render coping, and granite eaves course. Square-profile ventilation shafts with timber louvered vents to roof apex. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, with cast-iron wheel-stop to north-west corner. Oculi to gables to front (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings to gables to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick voussoirs, granite sills and cast-iron windows, some with cast-iron railings or steel grilles. Some openings to west elevation blocked, some with cast-iron vents inserted. Square-headed door openings with recent sliding steel doors to front. Square-headed door opening with concrete lintel, blocked opening, brown brick riser, recessed to centre, concrete coping, square-headed door opening inserted, now blocked, to loading bay to west elevation.

This bonded store, the form and fabric of which is characteristic of warehouses in the later nineteenth century, was built to designs by W. G. Murray for the Roe Distillery and is a reminder of the industrial heritage of the area, particularly its extensive associations with the distilling and brewing industries. The Roe Distillery was one of the predominant distillers in Dublin and merged with Jameson and the Dublin Whiskey Distillery to form the Dublin Distillers Company in 1889. The building retains characteristic industrial details including loading doors and ventilation shafts. With its heavy massing and large scale, it makes a strong impression on the streetscape.