Fencing in Stroud
We install and repair garden fencing across Stroud, from the town centre and Top of the Town out to Rodborough, Uplands and Whiteshill, and along the Frome valley through Thrupp, Brimscombe and Bowbridge. Stroud District Council is the planning authority. The valley sides shape the work here: stepped runs, retaining where one garden sits above the next, and carrying materials down a bank.
The houses and gardens in Stroud
Stroud grew on the woollen trade and the housing followed the valley sides. Cotswold stone weavers' terraces and clothiers' houses run along the slopes at Rodborough and Chalford, with stone cottages above the centre at Uplands and Whiteshill. Converted woollen mills are a significant part of the stock. Victorian terraces ring the centre, and post-war and modern estates sit at Cainscross, Cashes Green and Paganhill and out towards Stonehouse. That splits fencing work in two. On the older stone stock the neighbour boundary is often a mortared or dry-stone limestone wall, so a fence job turns into a wall repair, a wall-top fence, or a decision about keeping the wall. On the estates it is standard closeboard and panel work on flatter ground, with room for a barrow.
Digging in Stroud: the practical bit
Ground changes over a few hundred metres. Inferior Oolite limestone caps the hills, so on the tops it is free-draining brash over near-solid rock and a breaker to reach post depth. The valleys radiating from the town are Lias mudstone and clay: wet and slippery through winter, holding water in the hole, baking hard in summer. Where limestone meets the impermeable Fuller's Earth and the clays below, spring lines put running water in the hole while you mix. BGS mapping records camber, dip-and-fault, landslip and valley bulging around Stroud, so a steep plot gets set out with ground movement in mind. Access does the rest: posts and ballast barrowed down a bank or carried up steps from the road. Consent questions go to Stroud District Council.
The boundaries you already have
Cotswold limestone walling is the traditional boundary through the valleys and the conservation areas, dry-stone and mortared, built from the same oolite that caps the hills. Timber belongs mostly to the 20th-century estates at Cainscross, Cashes Green and Paganhill. The work that follows is what a valley town produces: stepped closeboard runs that drop a bay at a time down a slope, gravel boards set to the fall, retaining behind a fence line where one garden sits above the next, and post holes dug beside an existing stone wall without undermining it. Gate posts on a slope need the swing worked out before anything is set.
Everywhere we cover in Stroud
Stroud town centre · Top of the Town · Rodborough and Rodborough Common · Uplands and Whiteshill · Cainscross, Cashes Green and Paganhill · Ebley and Dudbridge · Thrupp, Brimscombe and Bowbridge
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Fencing services in Stroud
Every service we offer is available across Stroud, at the same guide prices we publish everywhere.
Closeboard fencing
Feather-edge boards built board by board onto concrete or timber posts, so the fence holds its line and single boards can be replaced.
Fence repair
Snapped posts and storm-blown panels put right across Cheltenham, with an honest read on whether repairing beats replacing.
Panel replacement
Failed panels swapped into your existing posts, matched to the height of the run, with the old panels taken away on the day.
Composite fencing
Wood-plastic composite panels on aluminium posts, fitted so your boundary needs a wash down instead of re-staining every other spring.
Garden gates
Side gates and driveway pairs, hung on oversized posts set in concrete, so the leaf keeps its swing and the latch still catches.
Decking
Timber and composite decking built on a sub-frame that drains and breathes, so the deck stays solid underfoot years after it is laid.
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