WORK is underway to transform an “eyesore” pub on the main road from Stroud to Nailsworth into new housing.

Builders have been on site since last week and have begun stripping the dilapidated Crown Inn off the A46, which has lain vacant for over a decade.

The run down public house, which lies in Woodchester Valley Village, is being stripped and made ready to be converted into a pair of three-bedroom houses.

Two additional properties will also be built on the car park to the left of the existing building.

An area of land to the rear called the paddock will then be used to build the other three houses and their gardens.

The yellow-coloured inn closed down and boarded up its windows in 2001.

During this time the pub has become more and more run-down and is a common but unpleasant sight for many people driving between the two towns.

Last year Chalford-based company Hedge Roe Properties was granted planning permission for the development by Stroud District Council.

Their plans include building another pair of houses over the public house’s former carpark, which lies just off Bath Road, opposite Renishaw.

The final three houses will be built on land to the back of the pub, with access coming from nearby Chemical Lane.

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