Herbert Warehouse

Herbert Warehouse is a six-storey building, originally constructed in 1846, which now serves as local authority offices. It was likely designed by John Jaques of Gloucester for Samuel Herbert, a solicitor, and was leased to J and C Sturge, corn merchants. In 1985, the building was restored and converted for use by Gloucester City Council, with an addition made to connect it to the offices in the converted Kimberley Warehouse to the south.

The warehouse is built of red brick and features stone lintels and sills on the window openings. It has a renewed slate roof with skylights, barge boards, and eaves boards. The interior includes hollow cast-iron columns and renewed timber or concrete slab floors. The building has a large rectangular plan, with its gable end facing the Main Dock.

On the north side, there is a late 20th-century entrance door to the Council offices, which is accessed by a broad flight of steps leading to a lobby at what was the former first-floor level, topped with a suspended canopy. The south side is partly obscured by a late 20th-century infill addition.

The exterior features three full-height former loading door openings on each side of the block, with one in the center and one towards each end, flanked by wall panels. Each wall panel contains four windows. The gable ends have a central former loading door opening, with two windows on each floor to either side. All former loading door openings have been infilled with late 20th-century windows and panels, and the south side includes a 20th-century access to the adjoining warehouse. Above the central loading door opening on the north side, there is a reconstructed timber hoist housing with a front gable, supported by shaped brackets. All windows are fitted with late 20th-century side-hung single sashes.

The interior has been refitted, retaining some cast-iron columns, and the loft floor features original queen post trusses.