St Stephen's is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
St Stephen's
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Stephen's, the Cross, Nympsfield, GL10 3TU
- OS grid reference
- SO 799 006
- Coordinates
- 51.70407, -2.29094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Stephen's is a detached house built around 1860 by Benjamin Bucknall. The building features coursed and dressed limestone, with ashlar and rendered brick chimneys, and a concrete tile roof. It is two storeys high and has a rectangular shape.
The southeast front is asymmetrical, with a roughly central doorway that has a hoodmould, and a 2-light chamfered mullioned casement to the right. The doorway is obscured by a timber lean-to porch addition. To the left on the ground floor, there is a single-light casement, with a 2-light casement located immediately below the eaves. The building has shaped stone gutter brackets, although the original stone gutters and downpipes have been replaced with standard 20th-century fittings.
A central ridge-mounted chimney features a cluster of four shafts, some of which have been rebuilt in the 20th century. The gabled ends have parapets, with the northeast end featuring a central buttress, two 2-light casements on the ground floor, and a 4-light window above that has been replaced in the 20th century, along with a quatrefoil gable vent. The southwest end has undergone more alterations, including two single-light ground floor casements and a 20th-century metal casement in the rendered gable, also with a quatrefoil gable vent.
At the rear, there is an off-centre parapet gable with 2-light casements and a segmental arched doorway below, which has a hoodmould grouping with a 2-light casement to the right. The interior has not been inspected. This building is similar in design to Scar Hill but lacks the gabled stair wing. Like Bucknall's other buildings in Nympsfield, it was constructed for William Leigh to provide accommodation for the newly established Catholic community.
Local climate
St Stephen's receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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