BIDDLES WAREHOUSE

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:: BIDDLES WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BIDDLES WAREHOUSE, THE DOCKS

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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

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Legacy System number:: 472553
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Conway Jones, H, Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History, (1984), 165

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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.