House of Guinness Filming Locations Revealed: You Won’t Believe Where They Shot It
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Steven Knight (yes, the Peaky Blinders guy) has a new one out. All eight episodes of his 19th-century family saga House of Guinness just landed on Netflix, and it is very much a big-swing period drama: inheritance fights, power plays, and a famous name with a lot to lose. It also looks expensive in the best way — grand houses, massive sets, and a whole lot of foggy streets. The twist? Almost none of those streets are in Dublin.
What the show is about (and where it pretends to be)
Inspired by the real Guinness dynasty, the series follows four siblings scrambling for control after their father, Sir Benjamin — head of the family brewery — dies. The story is set mostly in Dublin, especially around the Guinness home, Iveagh House, with detours into the countryside. Jack Gleeson pops up as Byron, whose storyline ships him off to New York — the only time the show leaves Ireland in the story, even if the cameras didn’t.
Where they actually filmed it
Despite the Dublin setting, the production planted its cameras across the North West of England: Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Yorkshire, and beyond. The logic is practical, not romantic — they needed 1868 Dublin, and modern Dublin doesn’t have enough of it left standing.
"Dublin now looks less like Dublin in 1868 than other areas do."
That’s Knight’s point in a nutshell. Same idea as Peaky Blinders not shooting in Birmingham: sometimes the right past is somewhere else.
- Salford: St Philips Church
- Cheshire: Tatton Park
- Skipton: Broughton Hall Estate
- Cheshire: National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
- Stockport: Little Underbank
- Manchester: Space Studios (sets) and the Northern Quarter doubling as 1870s New York for a multi-day chase sequence
- Liverpool: an old tobacco warehouse transformed into the Guinness brewery
- Wider region: additional work around Manchester, Liverpool, North Wales, and Yorkshire to nail the period streets and stately homes
How they stitched Dublin together
Executive producer Karen Wilson says the team buried themselves in 1868 research and period photos and quickly hit a wall: too little of old Dublin survives to match what the story needed. So they scouted across Ireland and the UK and ultimately built their Dublin out of North West England. Even then, they moved around more than a typical TV show to piece the city together street by street. The goal was authenticity over geography — the kind of inside-baseball decision that makes the show look right even if the map is lying.
The house, the brewery, the New York detour
Emily Fairn (Anne) says multiple stately homes tag-teamed as Iveagh House, and the sets were, in her words, incredible. Fionn O'Shea (Benjamin) was floored by the brewery build — production turned a Liverpool tobacco warehouse into a fully convincing Guinness factory, which works thematically since the brewery is basically Ben’s personal haunted house.
As for those New York scenes with Byron, Jack Gleeson shot them in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Between the set dressing and the extras, he says it felt like stepping straight into the 1870s. Movie magic, but with better coffee just off-camera.
Who is in it
The show fields a stacked cast, including Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, James Norton, Jack Gleeson, Emily Fairn as Anne, and Fionn O'Shea as Benjamin. Expect Knight’s usual rhythm of quiet menace punctuated by sharp twists.
Where to watch
House of Guinness is streaming now on Netflix. Plans start at £5.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream, if that’s how you watch your stuff.