Shiptons Warehouse

Shipton’s Warehouse is a warehouse dating from 1833, built for JM Shipton, a timber merchant, for their own use and to be leased to corn merchants. It is constructed of red brick with stone window sills, topped with a gabled slate roof featuring barge and eaves boards. The building is a large rectangular block with a gable end facing the Barge Arm, parallel to Biddle’s Warehouse.

The original design was for four storeys and a loft, but the ground floor was later converted to a double-height space with the insertion of a new floor. Brick eaves cornices are visible on the exterior. Each side of the building has a full-height loading door that opens to access each floor, flanked by four windows on each floor. The gable ends feature a loading door leading to each floor, and above, a timber cat-head hoist canopy in the gable apex, flanked by two windows on each floor and a single window in the gable. All windows have segmental arches built with brick and stone sills; the windows on all floors other than the top floor are larger than typically found in later dockside warehouses.

The interior was not inspected. The warehouse shares a similar design with Biddle’s Warehouse. Original drawings are held in the Gloucestershire Records Office.