Foxs Malthouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/345 Fox's Malthouse 12/03/73 (Formerly Listed as: THE DOCKS Alexandra Kiln)

GV II

Malthouse on the south side of Alexandra Warehouse. 1888. By JP Moore of Gloucester, architect, for SH Fox, corn merchant, incorporated in 1889 as Fox Clinch and Company, corn merchants and millers. Originally operated in conjunction with Alexandra Warehouse (qv). Red brick, slate roofs, timber barge and eaves boards. Comprises a rectangular store with end-gables, and on the east side the kilns in a rectangular block covered by two steeply pitched and parallel hipped roofs. EXTERIOR: store of four storeys and loft; in the centre of each gable-end wall a hoist door opening flanked by a window on each floor, all with brick cambered arched heads, and on the west side to each floor three similar windows. West side divided into five bays with four projecting brick pilasters; 3 windows each floor to centre bays; 2 windows and 2 doors at ground floor; additional window to first floor right. South wall as north but with fire escape. Various random windows to north and south kiln walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. The kiln block believed to contain four kilns with wire drying floors; machinery was worked by an engine house that once adjoined Alexandra Warehouse (qv) but has since been demolished. Original drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office D2460 Drawings 1-D. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 170; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-D).

Listing NGR: SO8258918201