Victoria Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/363 Victoria Warehouse 12/03/73

GV II

Bonded warehouse, now offices. 1849 converted to offices c1990. Probably by John Jaques of Gloucester, and built by William Jones, for William Partridge, corn merchant and property developer of Birmingham. Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window openings, internally timber floors supported by hollow cast-iron columns, slate roof with timber barge boards to gable-ends and brick eaves cornices to sides. Large rectangular block, the east gable-end facing Victoria Dock. EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft; in each side in the centre a full height, former loading door opening, flanked on each side by ten windows on each floor, in the centre of each gable-end wall a former loading door opening flanked on each side by two windows on each floor and a single window in the gable; all the former loading door openings infilled with late C20 windows and panels, and the original windows with C20 side-hung sashes; above each of the former loading doors on the sides walls a restored, timber, gabled cat-head canopy at eaves level INTERIOR: refitted for offices, not inspected. One of three similar warehouses built in conjunction with the construction of the Victoria Dock: Britannia Warehouse (rebuilt and not included) and Albert Warehouse (qv). (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 168; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-N).

Listing NGR: SO8282518360