Biddles Warehouse
BIDDLES WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245597
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Biddles Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- BIDDLES WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245597
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Biddles Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDDLES WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS
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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:
- BIDDLES 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 82695 18225
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/338 Biddle's Warehouse 12/03/73
GV II
Former bonded warehouse. 1830. By W Franklin, architect, of Stroud, for John Biddle, miller, of Stroud, in style similar to cloth mills in the Stroud Valley. Following subsidence of foundations supporting internal columns, warehouse leased in 1864 to John Weston and Co., corn merchants, on condition that repairs were carried out. Brick with stone sills to window openings, internally timber floors supported by hollow cast-iron columns; slate roof, originally hipped, but replaced after 1864 with end-gabled roof with timber barge and eaves boards. A large rectangular block parallel with the Dock's Main Basin. EXTERIOR: five storeys and loft, the original design of four storeys and loft had a double-height ground floor divided later by the insertion of a floor; brick eaves cornices, in the centre of west side a full-height loading door opening with timber doors to each floor, and above at eaves level a timber, gabled, cat-head hoist canopy, flanking the openings on each side four windows to each floor; east side has 9 windows each floor with timber connecting link to Shipton's Warehouse (qv); in the centre of each gable-end wall a loading door opening with timber doors to each floor, and above a cat-head hoist canopy at apex of gable, flanking the openings to either side two windows on each floor, and a single window in the gable; all the window openings have brick, segmental-arched 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. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 165; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-H).
Listing NGR: SO8269518225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472553
- 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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