Albert Warehouse

Albert Warehouse is a bonded warehouse, partly converted for use as a museum, built in 1851. It was likely designed by architect John Jaques from Gloucester and constructed by builder Joseph Moss for William Partridge, a corn merchant and property developer from Birmingham. In 1869, it was converted into a flour mill for James Reynolds, and around 1988, the ground floor was transformed for the Robert Opie Museum of Packaging. The building is made of brick with stone lintels and sills, featuring internally hollow cast-iron columns that support timber floors, and it has a slate roof with timber barge boards on the end gables and eaves cornices on the sides.

The warehouse is a large rectangular block with its gable end facing Victoria Dock. It stands six storeys tall, with a basement and attic. Each side has a former loading door opening in the center, flanked by ten small windows on each floor, although many of these windows have been built up. Each gable end wall also has a former loading door opening, flanked by two small windows and a single window in the gable. The former loading doors have been infilled with 20th-century windows, and all windows are of similar size with stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Above the former loading doors on each side wall are gabled dormers that have replaced former cats-head canopies.

Historically, this was the first mill in the Gloucester Docks to have roller milling machinery installed in 1882. It is one of three similar warehouses built after the construction of Victoria Dock, alongside Britannia Warehouse (which has been rebuilt and is not included) and Victoria Warehouse.