Unfinished Victorian Gothic Mansion
This Mansion is a unique and amazing listed Victorian Gothic house hidden in a beautiful Cotswold valley. Building started about 1857, but stopped in the mid-1860s so floors and ceilings are missing, walls are not plastered and windows unglazed. All the secrets of the construction of the Mansion are visible. The Mansion was designed by a young local architect, Benjamin Bucknall from Rodborough. He produced a unique Gothic Revival house which blends the local traditional work in limestone with the ideas of the French architectural thinker Viollet-le-Duc.The quality of the stone carvings in the Mansion are outstanding: some are inspired by the plants in the surrounding valley and others are life-like images of animals.
Stroud - Paddington Line
