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Castle Street, STROUD, GL5 2JD

This dramatic Victorian neo-classical building dates from 1876 (dated). Here is the rest of the entry on an old document of listed buildings: "Rock-faced rustication with ashlar quoins. Pitched slate roof. 2 storeys. Palladian temple front: coupled Ionic pilasters taking entablature with pediment. Acroteria. Oculus in tympanum. 2 arcuated windows with glazing bars, keystones, moulded surrounds and imposts on 1st floor. Round arched doorway in Baroque surround. 2 storey flanking bay with 1 range of casements each, and ramped coping to roof." Acroteria, it turns out, are those decorations right on top of the pediment. The building, on Castle Street, has now been converted into flats and is called Castle Court.

This is the neighbour of Image (to the left), and dates from 1844, displaying neo-Gothic features. On the right-hand gable facing the road is a clock with the much older figure of Image The girls' school closed in 1964, the building later became the Stroud Teachers' Centre, and is now ... flats.

Black boy School takes its name from the black boy figure on the clock which strikes the bell on the hour. The former National School closed in 1964 and is now flats.

This fine building has now been converted into flats. This is a view of the rear elevation.

The sign provides information about the restoration of the clock seen in Derek Harper's image Image

An C18 figure striking a bell above the octagonal clock on the gable of Image The figure was restored in 2003 through a Golden Jubilee grant.

More information on this figure can be found here courtesy Derek Harper Image

More information on this figure can be found here courtesy Derek Harper Image Update July 2021: After many decades of undisturbed existence this figure has made the news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-58028722 Update April 2022: The local authority wants the boy relocated https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61268440

This is another of Stroud's wealth of small pubs in the built-up parts of the town. It is situated about 140 metres from the head of the bustling High Street but not many people were to be seen in the immediate vicinity.

What looks like a former Co-op building at the Northern end of the pedestrianised shopping streets.