Llanthony Provender Mill

Llanthony Provender Mill, located on Merchant’s Road in Gloucester, is a substantial red brick structure with bands of blue engineering bricks, built in the 1860s and significantly enlarged in the 1890s. It was originally constructed in 1862 by George Hunt of Evesham for Foster Brothers as a provender mill, later used as an Oil and Cake Mill. Further additions and alterations occurred in the 20th century. The building’s plan comprises a core block with a gable-end wall of five bays facing Baker's Quay, extending eastward by about seven bays, and two parallel, end-gabled, lower ranges added to the south side, alongside a shorter workshop range at the east end.

The original block and its eastern extension rise to five storeys and a loft. The south ranges are two storeys and lofts high. Much of the detail on the original block’s elevations has been obscured by later additions, but a tall ground-floor storey is capped by a stone band. Upper floors have bays defined by brick strip and quoin pilasters, with windows featuring brick cambered-arched heads and keystones below ashlar courses at each floor level. The east gable-end walls of both the original block extension and the south ranges have similar brick detailing, with strip and quoin pilasters. A large, inserted 20th-century delivery doorway is located in the wide central bay of the southern range gable, above which sits a semicircular lunette window with a brick arch and keystone.

The workshop range adjoining on the south side has a flat composition roof, is painted white, and features a wide ground-floor doorway and a semicircular-arched recess framing a fixed light on the first floor. Similar windows with segmental-arched heads are present on both floors of the side wall facing Merchant’s Road. The interior has not been inspected. A hoist housing supported on four cast-iron columns partially obscures the west gable-end wall, replacing an earlier timber-framed structure taken down after the collapse of the Quay revetment wall in 1892.