April 1st 2009: Listing nomination

A news story from ThisIsGloucestershire. Stroud Civic Society’s own vice chairman, Tim Mars, announced, on April 1st, that Stroud’s notoriously ugly police station may be in line for Grade II listed building status. Tim said, “It’s about time Stroud police station got the recognition it deserves. Its etiolated horizontality offers an elegant[…]

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Design Award 2008 – Stroud College

Every year the Stroud Civic Society nominates a building for the Stroud Town Council Design Award. In 2008 the nomination went to Stroud College for their new building. Designed by Ellis Williams Architects of Warrington, this is an elegant, understated building with echoes of the white modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.  The[…]

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