Phillpotts Warehouse

GLOUCESTER

SO8218SE THE DOCKS 844-1/11/357 Phillpott's Warehouse 12/03/73 (Formerly Listed as: THE DOCKS Phillpots Warehouse)

GV II

Warehouse, local authority offices and shops. 1846. By John Jaques, architect, of Gloucester, and William Wingate, builder, for AH Phillpotts, corn merchant; 1985, converted to shops in the basement and ground floor, and offices for Gloucester City Council in the upper floors, with infill addition on the north side to link with offices in conversion of Kimberley Warehouse (qv), and a large C20 extension on the south side. Red brick with stone lintels and sills to window openings, renewed slate roof with skylights, barge and eaves boards; internally hollow, cast-iron columns and renewed timber or concrete floors. Steel frame and glass C20 extensions. A large rectangular block with gable-end towards Main Dock, the sides partly masked by C20 additions. EXTERIOR: six storeys, basement and loft floor; in each side of the block in the centre a full-height, former loading door opening, the flanking walls with eight windows to each floor; in each gable-end wall a central former loading door opening, and in wall on either side two windows to each floor, and a single window in the gable; the former loading door openings infilled with C20 windows and panels or, on the north side the access into the infill addition between warehouses, all the windows fitted with C20 side-hung sashes. INTERIOR: refitted, some cast-iron columns and in the loft original queen post trusses. (Conway-Jones H: Gloucester Docks An Illustrated History: Gloucester: 1984-: 167; Original Drawings in Gloucestershire Records Office: D2460 Drawings 1-G).

Listing NGR: SO8276918352