A Bond Tobacco Warehouse
January 2015
A Bond Warehouse is one of 3, Grade II listed, bonded warehouse built in Bristol during the early 20th century. A was the first, being built between 1903 and 1906. It was designed by the Docks Committee engineer, and built by William Cowlin and Sons. All three are made from reinforced concrete, with the ground floor in black brick with a low plinth and patent red bricks, blue engineering bricks, Pennant stone steps, terracotta details and a Welsh slate roof. It is nine storeys high and was the first major building in Britain to use Edmond Coignet's reinforced concrete system
Bonded warehouses were built securely because they stored imported goods “in bond”, without import duty having been paid, as though the goods had not yet entered the country. The three warehouses were mainly used to store tobacco. The tobacco could be cleaned, sorted, repacked and exported without payment of duty; or it could be prepared for sale in this country and once import duty was paid, the tobacco was released from bond and allowed to leave the warehouse for sale within the U.K.
C bond warehouse is currently used by a self storage company and B is partly used as council offices, Bristol Record Office and the local Create centre (organisation for sustainable development). A bond warehouse is currently used, as it appears, as storage for Bristol city council. There have been plans however to close several offices around the city and relocate them in one location at A bond warehouse. This plan doesn't seem to of got any where though.
A Bond Warehouse is one of 3, Grade II listed, bonded warehouse built in Bristol during the early 20th century. A was the first, being built between 1903 and 1906. It was designed by the Docks Committee engineer, and built by William Cowlin and Sons. All three are made from reinforced concrete, with the ground floor in black brick with a low plinth and patent red bricks, blue engineering bricks, Pennant stone steps, terracotta details and a Welsh slate roof. It is nine storeys high and was the first major building in Britain to use Edmond Coignet's reinforced concrete system
Bonded warehouses were built securely because they stored imported goods “in bond”, without import duty having been paid, as though the goods had not yet entered the country. The three warehouses were mainly used to store tobacco. The tobacco could be cleaned, sorted, repacked and exported without payment of duty; or it could be prepared for sale in this country and once import duty was paid, the tobacco was released from bond and allowed to leave the warehouse for sale within the U.K.
C bond warehouse is currently used by a self storage company and B is partly used as council offices, Bristol Record Office and the local Create centre (organisation for sustainable development). A bond warehouse is currently used, as it appears, as storage for Bristol city council. There have been plans however to close several offices around the city and relocate them in one location at A bond warehouse. This plan doesn't seem to of got any where though.
