The Coombs

The Coombs is a former private house, now an old people's home, built around 1859 for the Trotter family of Coleford. The building is constructed from dressed and snecked rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof with 20th-century brick stacks. It has a classical design with a French-style central tower and is a single range structure.

The façade includes five windows, one of which is a corner bay on the right. The windows have various heads, all featuring keystones, moulded stone architraves, and fluted sill brackets. There are bracketed stone eaves, a sill band at the first floor level, and vertical bands at the corners and marking some window bays. A projecting pedimented Tuscan porch sits on a plinth and has an interior dentil cornice. Three steps lead up to double doors that have a round-headed fanlight and flanking slit windows.

Above the porch, the tower features a circular window at attic level, with an architrave broken by flat bands at the compass points, and a swept hipped roof with steep gabled dormers that have circular lights on each face, along with a railed flat roof.

Inside, the hall contains a cantilevered stone staircase with a wrought iron balustrade and a swept wooden handrail. The coat of arms of the Trotter family is displayed on the wall. The main ground floor room to the right features fine plasterwork and an original white marble fireplace.