Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/357 Phillpott's Warehouse
12/03/73
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
Phillpots Warehouse)

GV II

Warehouse, local authority offices and shops. 1846. By John
Jaques, architect, of Gloucester, and William Wingate,
builder, for AH Phillpotts, corn merchant; 1985, converted to
shops in the basement and ground floor, and offices for
Gloucester City Council in the upper floors, with infill
addition on the north side to link with offices in conversion
of Kimberley Warehouse (qv), and a large C20 extension on the
south side. Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window
openings, renewed slate roof with skylights, barge and eaves
boards; internally hollow, cast-iron columns and renewed
timber or concrete floors. Steel frame and glass C20
extensions. A large rectangular block with gable-end towards
Main Dock, the sides partly masked by C20 additions.
EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft floor; in each side
of the block in the centre a full-height, former loading door
opening, the flanking walls with eight windows to each floor;
in each gable-end wall a central former loading door opening,
and in wall on either side two windows to each floor, and a
single window in the gable; the former loading door openings
infilled with C20 windows and panels or, on the north side the
access into the infill addition between warehouses, all the
windows fitted with C20 side-hung sashes.
INTERIOR: refitted, some cast-iron columns and in the loft
original queen post trusses.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 167; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-G).

Listing NGR: SO8276918352

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538002

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