Britannia Warehouse (Gloucester) | apartment building

 warehouse, apartment building

Built in 1861, this warehouse was intially rented to the Bristol based corn merchants H Adams & Co (later R & H Adams Ltd). In 1905, the lease passed to G T Beard who managed a number of the Gloucester warehouses, storing grain for various merchants who did not have their own accommodation. From the 1930s, the warehouse was no longer storing grain, and floors were rented to firms such as W S Barron & Son, millwrights, and Priestley Studios, who built exhibition displays. In 1987, when occupied by Cotswold Typesetting and by furniture stored by Loader & Munckton, the building was completely gutted by fire.

Britannia Warehouse was demolished and rebuilt, using many of the old bricks, to provide offices which were first occupied in 1990.

Now occupied by Barclays Bank and the British Publishing Company