Victoria Dock - Gloucester Docks - Albert Warehouse and Britannia Warehouse
At the Gloucester Docks.
Victoria Dock.
This dock was opened in 1849 to enlarge the dock area for increasingly busy trade.
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Albert Warehouse and Britannia Warehouse.
Behind to the left is Double Reynolds Warehouse and Vinings Warehouse.
Albert Warehouse is Grade II listed.
GLOUCESTER
SO8218SE THE DOCKS
844-1/11/336 Albert Warehouse
12/03/73
(Formerly Listed as:
THE DOCKS
Albert Mill Warehouse)
GV II
Bonded warehouse, partly converted for use as museum. 1851.
Probably by John Jaques, architect, of Gloucester and Joseph
Moss, builder, for William Partridge, corn merchant and
property developer, of Birmingham. In 1869 converted to a
flour mill for James Reynolds; ground floor converted c1988
for the Robert Opie Museum of Packaging. Brick with stone
lintels and sills, internally hollow cast-iron columns
supporting timber floors, slate roof with timber barge boards
to end-gables and eaves cornices to sides. A large rectangular
block with gable-end facing Victoria Dock.
EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and attic; on each side in the
centre a former loading door opening flanked to each side by
ten small windows on each floor (many windows built up) and in
the centre of each gable-end wall former loading door opening
flanked to each side by two small windows and a single window
in the gable; in the former loading doors C20 windows; all
windows of similar size with stone lintels and projecting
stone sills; in each side wall, above the former loading doors
in each side wall gabled dormers replacing former cats-head
canopies, the loading doors infilled with C20 windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the first mill in the Gloucester Docks in which
roller milling machinery was installed in 1882. One of three
similar warehouse built following the construction of the
Victoria Dock: Britannia Warehouse (rebuilt and not included)
and Victoria Warehouse (qv).
(Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History:
Gloucester: 1984-: 168; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire
Record Office: D2460 Drawings 1-M).
Listing NGR: SO8277818268
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Albert Warehouse
Built in 1851, this warehouse was intially rented to corn merchants W C Lucy & Co. Once a year, the lower floor was cleared for the annual fund-raising tea meeting organised by the chaplain of the nearby Mariner's Chapel. In 1869, James Reynolds took over the building and converted it to a flour mill with a boiler and engine house built to the south. Initially wheat was ground between stones, but in 1880 new roller milling machines were installed. Further equipment was added over the years to keep the business competitive until the mill was eventually closed in 1977.
Britannia Warehouse
Built in 1861, this warehouse was intially rented to the Bristol based corn merchants H Adams & Co (later R & H Adams Ltd). In 1905, the lease passed to G T Beard who managed a number of the Gloucester warehouses, storing grain for various merchants who did not have their own accommodation. From the 1930s, the warehouse was no longer storing grain, and floors were rented to firms such as W S Barron & Son, millwrights, and Priestley Studios, who built exhibition displays. In 1987, when occupied by Cotswold Typesetting and by furniture stored by Loader & Munckton, the building was completely gutted by fire.
Britannia Warehouse was demolished and rebuilt, using many of the old bricks, to provide offices which were first occupied in 1990.
Now occupied by Barclays Bank and the British Publishing Company
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