Shiptons Warehouse
SHIPTONS WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245468
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Shiptons Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHIPTONS WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245468
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Shiptons Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIPTONS WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHIPTONS WAREHOUSE, 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 82707 18221
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/359 Shipton's Warehouse 12/03/73
GV II
Warehouse. 1833. For JM Shipton, timber merchant, for own use and also leased to corn merchants. Red brick with stone sills to window openings, end-gabled slate roof with barge and eaves boards; internal hollow cast-iron columns supporting timber floors. A large rectangular block with gable-end towards Barge Arm and parallel with Biddle's Warehouse (qv) to west. EXTERIOR: five storeys and loft, the original design of four storeys and loft had a double-height ground floor divided later by insertion of a floor; brick eaves cornices; in the centre of each side a full-height loading door opening with timber doors to each floor, and flanking each opening four windows to each floor; in the centre of each gable-end wall a loading door opening with timber doors to each floor, and above a timber cat-head hoist canopy in the apex of the gable, flanking each opening two windows to each floor and a single window in the gable; all the windows have segmental-arched brick heads and stone sills; the windows on all floors other than the top floor are larger than in later warehouses within the docks. INTERIOR: not inspected. Similar in design to Biddle's Warehouse (qv). (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 165; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-Q).
Listing NGR: SO8270718221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472568
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Conway Jones, H, Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History, (1984), 165
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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