Downings Malthouses (Gloucester)

 brewery, interesting place, Grade II Listed (UK)

Downings Malthouses No's 3 and 4 of 1901 on Baker's Quay. They are built over what was once High Orchard Dock.

These are two of four malthouses on this site owned by the West Midlands company, the orginal ones being the other side of Merchants Road. Each malthouse had a basement and four floors with a range of kilns at the north end. A bridge over Merchants Rd linked the new malthouses to the earlier ones.

In the 1970s, the site began trading under the name Associated British Maltsters, a group that the Downing's business had joined back in 1931. Following the installation of modern plant at other malthouses around the country, the business at Gloucester could no longer compete, and it closed down circa 1980. The buildings were later used by West Midlands Farmers for grain storage.

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Some amazing photographs from inside can be found here: www.urbanxphotography.co.uk/141-gloucester-docks