Bridgekeeper's House on the Gloucester Sharpness Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Bridgekeeper's house. 1 related planning application.

Bridgekeeper's House on the Gloucester Sharpness Canal

WRENN ID
hidden-sentry-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Bridgekeeper's house
Address
Bridgekeeper's House on the Gloucester Sharpness Canal, Hinton, GL13 9HS
OS grid reference
SO 692 042
Coordinates
51.73573, -2.44736
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bridgekeeper's House on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal is an early 19th-century building, possibly designed by Robert Mylne, the first principal engineer for the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company. The house is rendered with a slate roof and features two small rendered stacks. It is L-shaped and may have originally been square, with shallow pediments on each side. The main facade faces northeast towards the canal and includes two widely spaced fluted Doric columns in antis, supporting a shallow pediment with a plain frieze and cornice, lacking bases.

At the back of the portico, there is a doorcase with moulded jambs and a lintel, leading to a six-panel door, where the top four panels are fielded and the lower two are flush. The windows are scattered, primarily consisting of small sash windows, either with plate glass or 16 panes. A slightly projecting plain eaves cornice runs along the section of the building parallel to the canal. Mylne conducted survey work for the original canal route from Gloucester to Berkeley in 1793, and after the terminal point was moved to Sharpness in 1813, the canal officially opened in 1827.

Local climate

Bridgekeeper's House on the Gloucester Sharpness Canal receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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 2018
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