DOCK COMPANY OFFICE

DOCK COMPANY OFFICE, THE DOCKS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245599
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: DOCK COMPANY OFFICE
Statutory Address:: DOCK COMPANY OFFICE, THE DOCKS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245599
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: DOCK COMPANY OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: DOCK COMPANY OFFICE, THE DOCKS

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOCK COMPANY OFFICE, THE DOCKS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 82808 18427

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/340 Dock Company Office 12/03/73 (Formerly Listed as: THE DOCKS Dock Office)

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Offices. 1831 with 1854 and mid C20 extensions. Originally built for the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company as offices and living accommodation for the Clerk of the Company; later the offices of the Dock Company and, after 1947, the British Waterways Board; renovated for professional offices 1993. Brick with stone details, slate roof. PLAN: the primary building a double-depth block facing entrance gates to The Docks to east, and facade on north side facing Commercial Road, both facades of three bays with the outer bays extruded; later additions on the south and east sides. EXTERIOR: two storeys; offset stone plinth, a raised stone band at first-floor levels, a stone crowning entablature with blocking course to the primary building, and a band and brick parapet to the later additions. The original doorway; on the west side of the primary building in the central recessed bay the original entrance doorway partially blocked and a pair of casements inserted in later C19, but retaining the semicircular fanlight with vertical glazing bars, the opening framed by moulded architrave with projecting keystone, and with stone imposts continued to each side as lintels to original sidelights infilled with later C19 casements, across the central bay above the arch a stone panel with a raised frame, probably for an inscription; in each projecting bay to either side a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes) and on the first floor three shorter sashes with glazing bars (3x3 panes). On the north side sashes similar to the west front on both floors except in the central bay on the first floor where the first-floor band replaced by the brick sill to a tripartite window containing sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes in the central sash). The extension to the south of the primary block of two bays facing west and three bays facing south, was originally of one storey with the second added in the C20. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SO8280818427

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Legacy System number:: 472555
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Conway Jones, H, Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History, (1984)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.