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Alexandra Warehouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8623 / 51°51'44"N

Longitude: -2.254 / 2°15'14"W

OS Eastings: 382608

OS Northings: 218218

OS Grid: SO826182

Mapcode National: GBR 1L5.6YN

Mapcode Global: VH94B.WG97

Plus Code: 9C3VVP6W+WC

Entry Name: Alexandra Warehouse

Listing Date: 12 March 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1271792

English Heritage Legacy ID: 472552

ID on this website: 101271792

Location: High Orchard, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1

County: Gloucestershire

District: Gloucester

Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Gloucester

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Hempsted with Gloucester, Saint Mary de Lode and Saint Mary de Crypt

Church of England Diocese: Gloucester

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Description



GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/337 Alexandra Warehouse
12/03/73

GV II

Bonded warehouse, now shop, offices, studios and workshops.
1870. By J Moss, builder, for JE and SH Fox, corn merchants
and millers; badly damaged by fire in 1875 and partially
rebuilt when the original eaves and verges replaced with
parapet. Red brick, stone lintels and sills, internally timber
floors supported by hollow, cast-iron columns, slate roof,
with C20 roof lights to loft. A large, rectangular, gabled
block at right angle to the Dock, the entrance under C20
canopy at east end.
EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft; former loading door
openings in the centre of each side flanked to either side by
ten windows, and in each gable-end wall flanked to either side
by two windows and a single window in the gable and a window
above, all infilled with C20 casements, on each side at
parapet level above the former loading door opening a timber,
gabled, cat-head canopy to house a former hoist; all the
windows with stone lintels and projecting sills, and fitted
with C20 casements. No windows to right-hand side of west
gable-end lower floors, where a later building has been
demolished.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 169).


Listing NGR: SO8260818218

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