Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/364 Vining's Warehouse
12/03/73
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
Vining Warehouse (Reynold's Flour
Mill))

GV II

Also known as: Reynold's Warehouse THE DOCKS.
Warehouse. 1840 later C19 alterations. By TS Hack, architect,
and William Wingate, builder, for CJ Vining, corn merchant.
Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window openings;
end-gabled slate roof with timber, gabled, hoist housings at
each end of the ridge, and timber barge and eaves boards;
internal hollow cast-iron columns supporting timber floors.
Large rectangular block; the west gable-end facing the Main
Basin.
EXTERIOR: six storeys and attic, but originally five storeys
with double-height ground floor divided later by insertion of
floor; on north side fourteen small windows to north floor, in
the centre of west gable-end wall a full-height loft door
opening with a timber door to each floor, at the west end
leading onto an iron fire escape stair, flanking the openings
on each side two windows and a small window in the gable; some
windows retain original iron framed casements. "On the north
side at high level a full-length, white painted panel
inscribed in black letters, "REYNOLDS' FLOUR MILLS"
In east gable, ground and first floors have central doorway
and single window on right-hand side; four floors over have
six windows; gable floor has four windows with date stone in
apex; 2-storey extension attached to the left-hand side of
central doorway. In the centre of south side a full-height
opening flanked on each side by six windows, gabled cat-headed
hoist canopy at eaves level; later first-floor door.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 166; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-B).

Listing NGR: SO8272718277

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538006

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)