Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/338 Biddle's Warehouse
12/03/73

GV II

Former bonded warehouse. 1830. By W Franklin, architect, of
Stroud, for John Biddle, miller, of Stroud, in style similar
to cloth mills in the Stroud Valley. Following subsidence of
foundations supporting internal columns, warehouse leased in
1864 to John Weston and Co., corn merchants, on condition that
repairs were carried out. Brick with stone sills to window
openings, internally timber floors supported by hollow
cast-iron columns; slate roof, originally hipped, but replaced
after 1864 with end-gabled roof with timber barge and eaves
boards. A large rectangular block parallel with the Dock's
Main Basin.
EXTERIOR: five storeys and loft, the original design of four
storeys and loft had a double-height ground floor divided
later by the insertion of a floor; brick eaves cornices, in
the centre of west side a full-height loading door opening
with timber doors to each floor, and above at eaves level a
timber, gabled, cat-head hoist canopy, flanking the openings
on each side four windows to each floor; east side has 9
windows each floor with timber connecting link to Shipton's
Warehouse (qv); in the centre of each gable-end wall a loading
door opening with timber doors to each floor, and above a
cat-head hoist canopy at apex of gable, flanking the openings
to either side two windows on each floor, and a single window
in the gable; all the window openings have brick,
segmental-arched heads and stone sills; the windows on all
floors, other than the top floor, are larger than in later
warehouses within the Docks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 165; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-H).

Listing NGR: SO8269518225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538113

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)