Wynn’s hotel

@shaun wrote:

On a recent trip to Dublin I noticed a 1920’s gem of a building I haven’t seen mentioned before on this board, namely Wynn’s hotel on middle Abbey street. My immediate thoughts were, hope they don’t knock down/renovate/modernize this pile, hope it just keeps on keeping on like it does, kind of reminded me of going into town with the old-man in the car in the 70’s and you just catch a glimpse of a building and you’re asking yourself, who built that, who goes in there. It’s great when the old town can spring a suprise on you.

Wynnes is a one of the few authentic hotels left in Dublin, seen at its best on All Ireland Day with hoardes of fans descending into the street on their way to Croker. I doubt that anyone one will touch it, its the type of business that has a particular market segment pretty well nailed and I’m sure that they are acheiving room yields far in excess of tour bus rates. The location mitigates against a Dublin 2 type room rate no matter how much you put into the place. 😎

A really lovely building – the arched windows being of particular interest.
They give it an air of classical grace not seen in many other buildings in the area.

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Really like the plain granite facades too – especially when contrasted with the detailed pilasters.
Perhaps the stone’s use was a little less successful in places on Upper O’Cll St…

As everyone always says about it, it’s a real city centre hotel. I’m very distantly related to the owners, but know they really love the place and have recently invested a lot into it.
Haven’t been in there in a few years though.

Wynns is a bit of a gem you often forget about alright… Middle Abbey Street now also has the Grand Central bar on the corner with O’C street. I wonder if the street is starting to feel the LUAS effect and we can look forward to more improvements..

Definately! There have been applications on all the buildings at the junction of Marlborough St and Abbey. The Flowing Tide (convert to apartments over pub) was granted, a revamp and rebuild of the former Plough (apartments over pub again) is pending and the ‘tourist office’ is also getting its act together. Meanwhile the terrace opposite Wynns got a bit of a spruce up. I think its dissapointing though how the CC failed to use the Luas to reinvent the street slightly. Particularly the lack for formal tree planting which I think would have softened all that grey granite paving. The same applied…if even more dramatically on Middle Abbey St…it just seems very bleak at the moment. There is also a lots less character to this stretch as a whole..apart from the Indo offices.

the chap that owns it use to own the Clarence befoe U2 bought it.

I believe he was director of it but lost in the bidding war with U2 to buy it out.
Think Wynns came up for sale at the same time so they snapped it up.