Old Sack Warehouse

The Old Sack Warehouse is a building with an 18th-century front built onto a 16th-century core. It faces Wye Street in Hereford and was part of a larger U-shaped complex overlooking the River Wye, shown on a plan of Hereford from 1757. The original 16th-century section comprises a large, square-panelled timber frame with queen-strut and king-post trusses. The 18th-century addition is an external wall of English garden wall bond brickwork standing on a sandstone plinth. It has a modillion eaves cornice, a brick band, window and door openings with segmental arches, and an oval window in the north gable.

The interior of the 16th-century section reveals a mutilated 17th-century roof, wattle-and-daub infill, chamfered ceiling joists, and 17th-century box framing. Initials, "FJ & WJ," carved in serifed 18th-century figures appear on a beam, and have sometimes been interpreted as belonging to Francis James, a bricklayer working around 1732, and William Jones, a carpenter working around 1754. The building was likely used as a dyer’s “blewhouse” until the Wye Navigation Act of 1695, subsequently operating as a coal warehouse and later by the Pomona Cider Company in the late 19th century. The building was described as being in ruinous and dangerous condition at the time of listing.