Kimberley Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/348 Kimberley Warehouse 12/03/73

GV II

Warehouse, now local authority offices and public house 1846. Probably by John Jaques of Gloucester for Humphrey Brown, later MP for Tewkesbury, and leased to JP Kimberley, corn merchant; in 1985 converted for public house in basement and ground floor, and offices for Gloucester City Council in upper floors, with infill additions linking offices in similar conversion of Herbert Warehouse (qv) on the north side and in Phillpotts Warehouse (qv) on the south side. Red brick with stone sills and lintels to window openings, renewed slate roof with skylights and barge and eaves boards; internally hollow cast-iron columns and timber or concrete floors. A large rectangular block with gable-end towards Main Dock, the sides partly masked by late C20 infill additions.. EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft floor; on each side of the block three full-height former loading door openings, one in the centre and one towards each end, all flanked by wall panels (W-D-W-D-W-D-W) with four windows in each wall panel on each floor; in each gable-end wall a central, former loading door opening, and in wall to each side of opening two windows to each floor and one to the loft; the former loading door openings infilled with late C20 windows and panels, and in the sides by C20 infill with access to adjoining warehouses; all the windows fitted with C20 side-hung sashes. INTERIOR: refitted, some cast-iron columns and in loft floor timber queen post trusses. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 167; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-L).

Listing NGR: SO8277818368