Pillar Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE MERCHANTS' ROAD 844-1/11/202 (West side) 12/03/73 Pillar Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: BAKER'S QUAY Gloucester And Sharpness Canal Pillar Warehouse)

GV II

Also known as: Pillar and Lucy Warehouses MERCHANTS' ROAD. Identical, semi-detached, bonded warehouses, now public house and restaurant. Probably 1838. By SW Dawkes of Gloucester, the northern warehouse for Samuel Baker, and the southern warehouse for JM Shipton, timber merchant, both warehouses leased to other merchants; restored and converted in late C20. Brick, stone sills to window openings, cast-iron columns; double, end-gabled slate roof with timber barge and eaves boards, internally hollow cast-iron columns supporting timber floors with beams believed to be 28m long. PLAN: a large rectangular block, at the twin-gabled west end of the block the three upper floors extended over Baker's Quay and the wall supported on a colonnade of cast-iron columns set on the revetment wall facing the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. EXTERIOR: four storeys, basement, and loft. At west end is colonnade of seven, large, cast-iron Doric columns supporting beams under the upper floors; above, central to each gable in the three upper floors, a loading door opening with a timber hoist canopy within the head of the gable supported on brackets, to each side of the openings on each floor a window (overall W-D-W-W-D-W); ground floor of each warehouse has leading door flanked by 2 windows, at basement level each warehouse has one centre door. On the east, twin-gabled end wall eight windows to each floor, four to each former warehouse, except on ground floor which has 2 doorways to left, possibly inserted and replacing a window; in each of the gables two windows, across the front between the second and third-floor windows a white painted panel inscribed in black letters "PILLAR AND LUCY HOUSE". In each side wall towards the east end a full-height loading door opening infilled with C20 windows and panels, to left of the opening two windows to each floor, to right on the ground floor four windows and at right-hand end the entry to the quay flanked by the colomnade, and on each of the upper floors six windows; all the windows in openings with brick segmental-arched heads and projecting

stone sills and refitted with C20 side-hung sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 166).

Listing NGR: SO8262218050