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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