Description

SO 61 SE NEWNHAM CHURCH ROAD
(east side)
2/4
Quay Warehouses (for-
9.6.82 merly listed under Back
Street)

- II

Barn, warehouse. Mid C18; possibly c.1755 (VCH) L-shaped block of which the
southerly range is the older. Mostly timber-framed of typical C18 box frame
type infilled mainly with brick, but also in part black slag block (waste from
local glass furnace); plain tile roofs, south range three storeys, ground storey
with opening, now blocked, formerly giving direct access to the quay. Various
small openings with evidence of later alterations; roof hipped at river end,
part cat-slide to rear wing. Interior: timber construction, little altered.
Important historically as a relic of Newnham's great period as a Forest of
Dean coalport, and only remaining warehouses directly on quay. ( See also VCH:
Gloucestershire, Vol X.)

Listing NGR: SO6930511896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26415745

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)