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Sturges Warehouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8626 / 51°51'45"N

Longitude: -2.2524 / 2°15'8"W

OS Eastings: 382716

OS Northings: 218257

OS Grid: SO827182

Mapcode National: GBR 1L5.1CZ

Mapcode Global: VH94B.XF3Y

Plus Code: 9C3VVP7X+32

Entry Name: Sturges Warehouse

Listing Date: 12 March 1973

Last Amended: 15 December 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1245469

English Heritage Legacy ID: 472569

ID on this website: 101245469

Location: High Orchard, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1

County: Gloucestershire

District: Gloucester

Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Gloucester

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Hempsted with Gloucester, Saint Mary de Lode and Saint Mary de Crypt

Church of England Diocese: Gloucester

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Description



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

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