Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/363 Victoria Warehouse
12/03/73

GV II

Bonded warehouse, now offices. 1849 converted to offices
c1990. Probably by John Jaques of Gloucester, and built by
William Jones, for William Partridge, corn merchant and
property developer of Birmingham. Red brick with stone lintels
and sills to window openings, internally timber floors
supported by hollow cast-iron columns, slate roof with timber
barge boards to gable-ends and brick eaves cornices to sides.
Large rectangular block, the east gable-end facing Victoria
Dock.
EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft; in each side in the
centre a full height, former loading door opening, flanked on
each side by ten windows on each floor, in the centre of each
gable-end wall a former loading door opening flanked on each
side by two windows on each floor and a single window in the
gable; all the former loading door openings infilled with late
C20 windows and panels, and the original windows with C20
side-hung sashes; above each of the former loading doors on
the sides walls a restored, timber, gabled cat-head canopy at
eaves level
INTERIOR: refitted for offices, not inspected.
One of three similar warehouses built in conjunction with the
construction of the Victoria Dock: Britannia Warehouse
(rebuilt and not included) and Albert Warehouse (qv).
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 168; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-N).

Listing NGR: SO8282518360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538005

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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