The Knoll, Stroud Road, Gloucester

It is 'Derelict Thursday' challenge day again as orchestrated by SarumStroller.

I have chosen this sad neglected timber framed building which has been progressively deteriorating for many years. I don't know much about its history, but it is sited beside the Stroud Road on the edge of the Robinswood Hill going south out off Gloucester. It is set beside the driveway to 'The Knoll', a care home set in an old Victorian mansion's wooded estate, with many elegant mature trees surrounding it.

I think the owners knew it couldn't be pulled down, as it is a Listed Building, so decided to just board it up and hope it falls down before they are forced into repairing it. I might be wrong, but its prospects are not good.



This is its description in the Listed Buildings of Gloucester document held by the local authority.
Possibly built as a farmhouse and converted in C18/early C19 to several cottages, from early C20 a house. Early C17 with later alterations; restored as single dwelling in C20. Timber frame with rendered nogging on squared, coursed stone rubble and later brick dwarf walls; stone slate, gabled roof with gabled dormers, brick stacks. A long, single-depth range with a later half-gabled cross wing with a flanking lean-to addition at the south end.

EXTERIOR:
single storey and attic, square panel framing to all external walls; the front has a central entrance doorway in centre of range and a doorway in the cross- gable addition, both with shallow hoods above on timber brackets; in the cross gable to left a slightly projecting, canted oriel with casements to front and sides with sill supported on a shaped bracket, above the oriel across the centre of the gable a hood roofed with stone slates. C19 wood and lead-light casements, that to first floor on right set in gabled dormer.