Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8217 MERCHANTS' ROAD
844-1/15/200 (East side)
12/03/73 Downing's Malthouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BAKER'S QUAY
Gloucester & Sharpness Canal
Malthouse (G & WE Downing))

GV II

Malthouse. Dated 1893. Later alterations. Probably by Walter B
Wood of Gloucester, for G and WE Downing, maltsters. Red brick
with narrow bands of contrasting brick, gabled slate roofs
with coped parapets. A large block in L-plan comprising a pair
of parallel ranges and a third, attached, parallel ranges on
north side with gable-ends facing Merchants' Road, probably a
kiln with vented roof ridge, and attached at rear on north
side a short, end-gabled range facing High Orchard Street.
EXTERIOR: four storeys to front ranges, three storeys to rear
range; the gabled fronts to the southern pair of ranges are
similar and symmetrical, each of three bays defined on the two
upper floors by recessed panels framed by strip pilasters and
the gable parapet; on the ground floor a central
semicircular-arched doorway and to each side a circular
window; on the first floor three windows with segmental-arched
heads; on the second floor within each of the recessed panels
and on the third floor in the side panels a window similar to
the first-floor windows; on the third floor in the central
panel in the left-hand range is a weatherboarded gabled hoist
housing, supported on a pair of cast-iron brackets; former
similar housing on the front of the right-hand range indicated
by a scar on the face of the brickwork; the east gable-end
walls of the pair of ranges have similar features but only two
recessed panels on the two upper floors and two windows to
each floor.
The front of the north range has two doorways on the ground
floor and two small, blocked, segmental-arched windows on
first floor, above two large recessed panes framed by quoin
strips, a central pilaster strip and gable parapets; above,
masking the end of the ridge vent, is a small gabled panel
with recessed stone inscribed with date. On the north side of
the range at first-floor level are four widely spaced
segmental-arched windows, and above ten recessed panels framed
by pilaster strips and eaves strip.
The range facing High Orchard Street was probably built as a
small warehouse of three storeys and three bays with fourth

bay added at north end, the three bays symmetrical with
central loading doors to each floor, now blocked, and to each
side on each floor a segmental-arched window with projecting
stone sill; in the added bay on each floor a similar window
with brick sill.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8263817943

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561628

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)