Gloucestershire

Trades in Stroud

23 electricians and 10 heating engineers and 13 roofers on our registers cover Stroud.

Short answer

Stroud sits where five valleys meet. Its homes include weavers’ cottages, Victorian terraces with Welsh slate and converted mills. Stroud District Council handles planning. Two town conservation areas have Article 4 directions, so check before you change a roof material or fix new items to a front wall.

Trades that cover Stroud

Electricians

23 firms on Cotswolds Electricians cover Stroud. 19 are on a trade register.

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Heating engineers

10 firms on Cotswolds Heating cover Stroud. 9 are on a trade register.

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Roofers

13 firms on Cotswolds Roofers cover Stroud. 3 are on a trade register.

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Plumbers, builders and handymen: registers in preparation.

Homes in the Five Valleys

The town grew on the cloth trade. Mill workers lived in stone cottages on the valley sides, and many of these keep their stone slate roofs. Victorian houses mostly have Welsh slate. On these roofs, rusted nails can let slates slip across the whole roof. Several old mills are now flats. A converted mill can have a landlord supply for shared areas and a separate supply for each flat.

Article 4 and conservation areas

The council lists 41 conservation areas in the district. Stroud Town Centre and Stroud Top of the Town have Article 4 directions. The council says some of these apply only to walls that face a road or a public open space. Painswick has its own conservation area, and Bisley has an Article 4 direction.

Slopes and damp

Steep streets can make a scaffold taller and dearer. Rooms cut into the hillside can stay damp, and damp can damage sockets and make an RCD trip. National Grid Electricity Distribution runs the network here.

Gas in town, oil in the hills

In the 6 Stroud town wards, 73.7 per cent of households used mains gas alone in the 2021 Census. Painswick is different: 16.5 per cent of households in Painswick and Upton ward used oil alone.