Bolton Street, Dublin 1 · Opening soon
Where the Markets meet the Georgian north city — a new hotel on Bolton Street, in the oldest, least-polished, most interesting quarter of Dublin.
The hotel
A new building on an old working street.
Bolton Street has spent most of its life making things — coach-builders, cabinetmakers, printers, and for the last century the technical college that taught half the trades in the city. So we did not try to mimic the Georgian city a few doors east. We built in brick, in a deep grid that reads as a workshop window rather than a drawing room, and let the street carry on as it was.
Rooms are compact and unapologetic about it. A timber desk that curves out of the headboard, storage under the bed rather than around it, good blackout, a reading light that actually reaches the page — and, in most rooms, a window looking straight onto a red-brick Georgian terrace. We would rather give you a small room done properly than a big one done cheaply.
The ground floor is the part we argued about longest. It is a café from early, with a proper machine and pastries worth crossing the road for; it is a place to work at lunchtime; and it is a bar in the evening, under a petrol-blue ceiling and a row of glass globes. If you live on this street, it is yours as much as it is our guests’.
The ground floor
Open to the street,
not just the guests.
Café from early, bar from six — open to the neighbourhood — the test being whether the neighbourhood would come in even if there were no rooms upstairs.
The hotel in pictures
A closer look.
Around the corner
The best of
Dublin is outside.
The north inner city rewards walking. Some of what is on the doorstep:
14 Henrietta Street
4 min walk
Dublin’s earliest and grandest Georgian street, and a museum that tells the whole story — aristocratic townhouse to tenement — in one staircase.
The King’s Inns & Constitution Hill
3 min walk
Gandon’s classical set-piece, with a public park behind it that most visitors never find.
Capel Street
6 min walk
Pedestrianised and thriving — independent restaurants, old-school hardware shops and some of the best value eating in Dublin.
Smithfield Square
8 min walk
Cobbles, the Lighthouse Cinema, the Cobblestone for trad played properly, and the Jameson distillery on Bow Street.
Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square
8 min walk
A superb civic collection, and Francis Bacon’s studio moved here piece by piece from London.
The Victorian Fruit & Vegetable Market
5 min walk
The great iron-and-brick market hall on Mary’s Lane — the trading heart of this quarter for well over a century.
The particulars
Good to know.
Detail is still being confirmed as the build progresses. Register your interest and we will send you the specifics — rooms, rates and opening date — before anyone else.
Location
Bolton Street, Dublin 1
Neighbourhood
The Markets & the Georgian north city
The building
New-build, six storeys in brick, with the café and bar at street level
Nearest transport
Four Courts and Smithfield Luas (Red Line); Dublin Bus on Parnell Street
Airport
Dublin Airport, approx. 25 minutes by road
Ground floor
Café from early, bar from six — open to the neighbourhood
Status
In development — opening date to be announced
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Keep in touch
First word,
before anyone else.
Opening dates, rates, neighbourhood news and the occasional invitation. No more than once a month, and you can leave whenever you like.