CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Stroud District Council

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CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Conservation Area No7: FRAMPTON ON SEVERN
3 THE CHARACTER OF FRAMPTON ON SEVERN: A SUMMARY
Form and Spaces
Frampton on Severn is essentially a long and narrow settlement with the airy, expansive Green to the north bottlenecking
into The Street, which winds southwards to Church End.
Most houses along The Street and the southern end of The Green have been built parallel to the road, others are at
right angles, presenting gable- ends to public view.
Narrow alleys and paths run between the buildings, both for public use and private. The gaps between the houses
provide little ‘framed’ pictures of the gardens and countryside beyond. There are elements of small- scale back-land
development, often buildings that served the past uses of those fronting the road, for example stables and storage
sheds.
Front gardens are demarcated by iron railings and hedges and brick walls of differing heights. In places, the taller
brick walls and hedges are quite overbearing, creating very impermeable hard edges, at other points, the low walls
and hedges allow open peeks into the cottage gardens, and through to the meadows and orchards beyond.
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