Sturges Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/360 Sturge's Warehouse 12/03/73 (Formerly Listed as: THE DOCKS The "G" Warehouse (Flour Mill))

GV II

Also known as: Reynold's Double Warehouse THE DOCKS. Shown on OS map as Flour Mill. Bonded warehouse. 1840. By SW Daukes, architect, of Gloucester and William Rees, builder, for J and C Sturge, corn merchants. Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window openings, parallel slate roofs with twin end-gables with barge and eaves boards. Large, almost square, block comprising two parallel ranges, on the east side of the Dock's Main Basin with gabled end facing Basin. EXTERIOR: six storeys and lofts; in the centre of each side a full-height loading door opening with timber doors to each floor, and above a timber, gabled, cat-head hoist canopy, flanking the opening on each side of the openings eight windows on each floor; in the west gable-end wall and centred under each of the gables a full-height loading door opening with timber doors to each floor and loft, between the openings four windows and flanking the outer sides two windows to each floor, in each gable on either side of the opening a small window with semicircular-arched head; in the east gable-end wall across the full width of the block twelve windows, in each gable two central windows with a small window with semicircular arched brick head to either side, and above in the apex of the gable a similar small window. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 166; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-I).

Listing NGR: SO8271618257