CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Stroud District Council

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48 CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Conservation Area No7: FRAMPTON ON SEVERN Ship Canal'. A scheme was drawn up by the architect and civil engineer Robert Mylne, but he left the project after it ran into financial difficulties in 1798. At this point, the canal basin at Gloucester was complete, but only a quarter of the 18-mile canal to its original proposed junction with the Severn at Berkeley Pill was finished. The project dragged on for another 20 years until the world famous engineer Thomas Telford, was appointed to bring the scheme to completion. He abandoned the Berkeley idea and moved the southern terminus to Sharpness Point. After so much delay, the canal finally opened in April 1827. Two crossing points were provided at Frampton, with crossing keeper’s houses: Splatt Bridge, named after an ancient plot of waste ground close to Frampton Pill, carried the road from Church End into the fields. Fretherne Bridge carried the turnpiked Perry Way across to Fretherne and the ferry between Arlingham and Newnham. Frampton Wharf, now a small car park, was built nearby. This was much used after the opening of the Cadbury factory in 1916 and the zig- zag roofline of the original covered loading bays can still be seen. The factory expanded along the site until its closure in the early 1980s. The Buildings in Sub Area 5: The Canal Key buildings and focal points This sub- area features three highly striking buildings, which are stylistically a million miles away from the Frampton vernacular. The bridgekeepers’ lodges next to the bridges at Splatt and on the Fretherne road are more or less contemporary with the canal and were probably actually designed by Robert Mylne as part of his initial vision for the scheme. Stroud District Council
CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Conservation Area No7: FRAMPTON ON SEVERN They present their best face to the canal, appearing as neat, white, single storey structures, but with a grandeur disproportionate to their size. Their Classical Greek fluted columns and pediments were the height of fashion at the time, and the buildings were intended to be a statement of the solidity and refinement of the canal company. Also making an architectural statement is the enormous concrete silo on the opposite bank to the Fretherne lodge, built by Cadbury's as a store for the ingredients of their chocolate crumb. This is a monument to the Art Deco movement, sitting in contrast to the older, also highly interesting, former Cadbury’s buildings surrounding it. As is typical of Art Deco, the silo is painted gleaming white, its angular form conspicuous against the sky. For the residents of the sleepy backwater Frampton in the 1930s, its stark modernism must have been almost shocking. It is a glamorous, although slightly unappreciated building, and still creates an impact. Stroud District Council 49
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