Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/360 Sturge's Warehouse
12/03/73
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
The "G" Warehouse (Flour Mill))

GV II

Also known as: Reynold's Double Warehouse THE DOCKS.
Shown on OS map as Flour Mill.
Bonded warehouse. 1840. By SW Daukes, architect, of Gloucester
and William Rees, builder, for J and C Sturge, corn merchants.
Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window openings,
parallel slate roofs with twin end-gables with barge and eaves
boards. Large, almost square, block comprising two parallel
ranges, on the east side of the Dock's Main Basin with gabled
end facing Basin.
EXTERIOR: six storeys and lofts; in the centre of each side a
full-height loading door opening with timber doors to each
floor, and above a timber, gabled, cat-head hoist canopy,
flanking the opening on each side of the openings eight
windows on each floor; in the west gable-end wall and centred
under each of the gables a full-height loading door opening
with timber doors to each floor and loft, between the openings
four windows and flanking the outer sides two windows to each
floor, in each gable on either side of the opening a small
window with semicircular-arched head; in the east gable-end
wall across the full width of the block twelve windows, in
each gable two central windows with a small window with
semicircular arched brick head to either side, and above in
the apex of the gable a similar small window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 166; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-I).

Listing NGR: SO8271618257

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538004

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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