Albert Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/336 Albert Warehouse 12/03/73 (Formerly Listed as: THE DOCKS Albert Mill Warehouse)

GV II

Bonded warehouse, partly converted for use as museum. 1851. Probably by John Jaques, architect, of Gloucester and Joseph Moss, builder, for William Partridge, corn merchant and property developer, of Birmingham. In 1869 converted to a flour mill for James Reynolds; ground floor converted c1988 for the Robert Opie Museum of Packaging. Brick with stone lintels and sills, internally hollow cast-iron columns supporting timber floors, slate roof with timber barge boards to end-gables and eaves cornices to sides. A large rectangular block with gable-end facing Victoria Dock. EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and attic; on each side in the centre a former loading door opening flanked to each side by ten small windows on each floor (many windows built up) and in the centre of each gable-end wall former loading door opening flanked to each side by two small windows and a single window in the gable; in the former loading doors C20 windows; all windows of similar size with stone lintels and projecting stone sills; in each side wall, above the former loading doors in each side wall gabled dormers replacing former cats-head canopies, the loading doors infilled with C20 windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the first mill in the Gloucester Docks in which roller milling machinery was installed in 1882. One of three similar warehouse built following the construction of the Victoria Dock: Britannia Warehouse (rebuilt and not included) and Victoria Warehouse (qv). (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 168; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Record Office: D2460 Drawings 1-M).

Listing NGR: SO8277818268