Biddles Warehouse

Former bonded warehouse built in 1830. Designed by W Franklin, an architect from Stroud, for John Biddle, a miller from Stroud, and constructed in a style similar to cloth mills in the Stroud Valley. The building is a large rectangular block running parallel to the Main Basin of the docks. It is constructed of brick with stone sills to the window openings, and has a slate roof. The original design was for four storeys and a loft, but the ground floor was later subdivided with the insertion of a new floor. After 1864, the warehouse was leased to John Weston and Co., corn merchants, with the condition that repairs were undertaken due to subsidence affecting the internal columns.

The exterior features brick eaves cornices. The west side has a full-height loading door opening onto each floor, with timber doors leading to each level. Above this, at eaves level, is a timber, gabled cat-head hoist canopy. Flanking the loading door are four windows on each floor. The east side has nine windows on each floor, connected by a timber link to Shipton's Warehouse. Each gable end has a loading door opening onto each floor, with a cat-head hoist canopy at the apex of the gable and two windows on each floor, plus a single window in the gable. All window openings have brick, segmental-arched heads and stone sills; the windows on all floors, except the top floor, are larger than those found in later warehouses within the Docks.

The interior was not inspected and remains largely unknown. Original drawings are held in the Gloucestershire Records Office.