CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Stroud District Council

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CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Conservation Area No7: FRAMPTON ON SEVERN
The eastern side of the Street, beyond the hard edging created by the old school room, is more open to view and
much less constrained. The houses generally sit nearer to the road, but they still tend to have some form of front
garden. Their boundaries are more often low walls and hedges or, a very common Frampton on Severn feature,
decorative wrought iron fences. Unfortunately some boundaries have been removed and front gardens turned into
parking spaces. This has resulted in an erosion of the characterful delineation between public and private space.
The streetscape opens dramatically in the area around the lych gate. Whilst on the one side, the garden walls of
Buckholt House provide a tall, hard edge to the road, on the other, the flat expanse of the Narles opens the up the
view to the river. The Street itself, at the start of a sweeping curve, widens at this point, making a mini- village green
with the important feature of the pollarded limes.
Although the majority of the houses between Whittles Lane and The Green do have some private space to the front,
it is generally the buildings, not the gardens, that come to the fore as the chief definers of space, particularly on the
west side. Here, a very hard edge develops; the road is either hemmed in by front walls, or fairly blank gable ends.
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