Herbert Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/347 Herbert Warehouse 12/03/73

GV II

Warehouse, now local authority offices. 1846. Probably by John Jaques of Gloucester for Samuel Herbert, solicitor, and leased to J and C Sturge, corn merchants; 1985 restored and converted to offices for Gloucester City Council, with addition to link with offices in conversion of Kimberley Warehouse (qv) on the south side. Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window openings, renewed slate roof with skylights, barge and eaves boards, internally hollow cast-iron columns and renewed timber or concrete slab floors. PLAN: a large rectangular block, with gable-end towards Main Dock; on north side late C20 entrance door to Council offices, with broad flight of steps to lobby at former first-floor level, and suspended canopy above; the south side partly masked by late C20 infill addition. EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft floor; in each side of the block three, full-height, former loading door openings, one in the centre and one towards each end, flanked by wall panels (W-D-W-D-W-D-W) with four windows in each wall panel; in each gable-end wall a central former loading door opening, and in wall to each side two windows to each floor; all the former loading door openings infilled with late C20 windows and panels and, on the south side, by C20 access to adjoining warehouse; above the central loading door opening on the north side is a reconstructed, timber, front gabled, projecting hoist housing supported on shaped brackets; all the windows fitted with C20 side-hung single sashes. INTERIOR: refitted, some cast-iron columns and in the loft floor original queen post trusses. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 167).

Listing NGR: SO8278518382