Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE MERCHANTS' ROAD
844-1/11/202 (West side)
12/03/73 Pillar Warehouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BAKER'S QUAY
Gloucester And Sharpness Canal
Pillar Warehouse)

GV II

Also known as: Pillar and Lucy Warehouses MERCHANTS' ROAD.
Identical, semi-detached, bonded warehouses, now public house
and restaurant. Probably 1838. By SW Dawkes of Gloucester, the
northern warehouse for Samuel Baker, and the southern
warehouse for JM Shipton, timber merchant, both warehouses
leased to other merchants; restored and converted in late C20.
Brick, stone sills to window openings, cast-iron columns;
double, end-gabled slate roof with timber barge and eaves
boards, internally hollow cast-iron columns supporting timber
floors with beams believed to be 28m long.
PLAN: a large rectangular block, at the twin-gabled west end
of the block the three upper floors extended over Baker's Quay
and the wall supported on a colonnade of cast-iron columns set
on the revetment wall facing the Gloucester and Sharpness
Canal.
EXTERIOR: four storeys, basement, and loft. At west end is
colonnade of seven, large, cast-iron Doric columns supporting
beams under the upper floors; above, central to each gable in
the three upper floors, a loading door opening with a timber
hoist canopy within the head of the gable supported on
brackets, to each side of the openings on each floor a window
(overall W-D-W-W-D-W); ground floor of each warehouse has
leading door flanked by 2 windows, at basement level each
warehouse has one centre door. On the east, twin-gabled end
wall eight windows to each floor, four to each former
warehouse, except on ground floor which has 2 doorways to
left, possibly inserted and replacing a window; in each of the
gables two windows, across the front between the second and
third-floor windows a white painted panel inscribed in black
letters "PILLAR AND LUCY HOUSE". In each side wall towards the
east end a full-height loading door opening infilled with C20
windows and panels, to left of the opening two windows to each
floor, to right on the ground floor four windows and at
right-hand end the entry to the quay flanked by the colomnade,
and on each of the upper floors six windows; all the windows
in openings with brick segmental-arched heads and projecting

stone sills and refitted with C20 side-hung sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 166).

Listing NGR: SO8262218050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561632

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)