Scar Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Lodge.
Scar Hill
- WRENN ID
- patient-string-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Scar Hill, B4066, Nympsfield
- OS grid reference
- SO 797 015
- Coordinates
- 51.71195, -2.29431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scar Hill is a former lodge that has been converted into a detached house, built around 1860 by Benjamin Bucknall for William Leigh. The building is constructed from coursed dressed limestone and features ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. It is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style and is two stories high, with a stair wing on the south side.
On the south side, there is an off-centre gabled stair wing that has moulded coping, kneelers, and finials. It includes two single stair-lights with hoodmoulds and a quatrefoil vent at the gable apex. To the left, there is a mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor. A hipped coped porch hood is situated at the angle to the right, supported by an octagonal corner column, with a small upper floor window above. To the right of the porch, there is another mullioned and transomed casement window. The building features stone gutters supported by shaped stone brackets. A central ridge-mounted chimney has a cluster of six square shafts with a weathered cap.
The ends of the building have parapet gables with kneelers. The west end has a projecting chimney with three square shafts, flanked by a single-light window on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the upper floor. At the east end, there are mullioned and transomed casements on each floor, with a quatrefoil vent above. The rear of the building has an off-centre gabled dormer with coping and a finial, along with single and two-light mullioned casements that share a hood and a quatrefoil vent above. There is a three-light casement on the ground floor, while a lean-to addition to the right is not of special interest.
Inside, the building features transverse stone arches in the principal rooms that lead to brick-vaulted ceilings. Scar Hill stands on the western drive to The Mansion at Woodchester Park.
Local climate
Scar Hill 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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