Kimberley Warehouse

Kimberley Warehouse is a warehouse built in 1846, now serving as local authority offices and a public house. It was likely designed by John Jaques of Gloucester for Humphrey Brown, who later became the MP for Tewkesbury, and was leased to JP Kimberley, a corn merchant. In 1985, the building was converted, with the basement and ground floor turned into a public house and the upper floors into offices for Gloucester City Council. The warehouse features red brick construction with stone sills and lintels for the window openings, a renewed slate roof with skylights, and barge and eaves boards. Inside, there are hollow cast-iron columns and timber or concrete floors.

The structure is a large rectangular block with its gable end facing Main Dock, although its sides are partly obscured by late 20th-century infill additions. The exterior comprises six storeys, a basement, and a loft floor. Each side of the block has three full-height former loading door openings, with one in the centre and one towards each end, flanked by wall panels. Each wall panel contains four windows on each floor. The gable-end walls have a central former loading door opening, with two windows on each side of the opening for each floor and one in the loft. The former loading door openings have been infilled with late 20th-century windows and panels, and the sides feature 20th-century infill providing access to adjoining warehouses. All windows are fitted with 20th-century side-hung sashes. The interior has been refitted, retaining some cast-iron columns, and the loft floor includes timber queen post trusses.