Wallbridge Warehouse

A canal warehouse, built in 1828, as part of the Wallbridge Wharf on the Thames and Severn Canal. The warehouse stands on the north side of the canal, alongside the large coping stones of the former wharf walls.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed from squared and coursed local limestone, with large ashlar quoins and dressings. The roof is covered in slate.

PLAN: the building is rectangular on plan.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys below a pitched roof. The canalside elevation has central former door openings, partly sealed in brick and concrete block, with windows inserted at each level. There are upper windows to either side with metal frames. The canalside openings have concrete lintels. Iron fixings remain embedded in the elevation at various levels. The west gable end has wide double doors and a taking-in door above, both with ashlar stone architraves. The ground-floor doors have an oak lintel and the upper opening has an ashlar lintel. The rear elevation has two metal-framed windows at upper level, either side of a central taking-in door with an ashlar architrave and timber lintel. The east gable has some brick modifications, and there is a central taking-in door/ window.

INTERIOR: the ground floor has three, evenly-spaced timber posts in the centre of the flag stone floor, supporting the first-floor structure. There is a plain timber stair in the north-west corner. The first floor has C19 floorboards and the roof is a C19 king-post structure, composed of four trusses.