Robinson'S Warehouse

Robinson’s Warehouse is a warehouse and office building, dating from 1875, with reconstruction work carried out in 1981 behind the original facades. It was designed by WB Gingell and is constructed of yellow brick with red brick detailing and moulded brick dressings. The architecture is in a polychromatic Venetian Gothic style. The building is two storeys high and has a seven-window range. Although the facades appear separate, they share a continuous cornice and parapet with common decorative elements including red and yellow brick quoins, sill bands, impost bands featuring angled brick panels, and diagonally-set bricks below a bracketed cornice. The left-hand block incorporates outer doorways, originally windows, with curved corners to the heads. It also has three full-height windows, all five windows featuring red ogee hoods on the first floor, set within semicircular-arched recesses with parabolic-arched extrados, and a ramped centre to the parapet. The right-hand block shares the decorative detailing but lacks the arched recesses and full-height windows. The windows are sash windows with margin bars. Internally, the building has been converted into squash courts and offices. Historically, it was part of John Robinson's Oil Seed Mill, which was demolished in 1981, with the facades of the warehouse being retained.