Inn · Stroud
The Clothiers Arms
A pub with seven rooms at the bottom of Rodborough Hill in Stroud, a pub since 1891, with a beer garden, an adventure play area next door and a family suite.
Family-friendly · Car-free
A town pub with rooms a short walk from Stroud station, with a family suite, a beer garden and an adventure play area next door. A practical base for a car-free stay.
- Good: Short walk from Stroud station and the town centre
- Good: Family suite, and an adventure play area next door
- Good: Large car park
- Good: Lunch and dinner menus, and a Sunday roast
- Worth knowing: Closes at 8pm on Sundays
About
The Clothiers Arms is a pub with rooms at 1 Bath Road, at the bottom of Rodborough Hill in Stroud. It has been a pub since 1891 and takes its name from Stroud's long history in the wool trade; WSP Textiles, across the road, is one of the last textile manufacturers in Stroud. From 1902 to 1952 Mrs Ellen Bennett ran it as a beer house and sweet shop, remembered in Mrs Bennett's Sweet Shop, a corner of the restaurant. It is part of the Community Inns group, and the current team took over in June 2025.
The menu is seasonal pub classics, with lunch, dinner and a Sunday roast, and the bar serves real ales, lagers and wine. There is a beer garden, and an adventure play area next door. The pub opens from noon every day, closing at 11pm from Monday to Saturday and at 8pm on Sundays.
Upstairs are seven rooms: standard doubles and twins, a premium double with a courtyard, and a family suite. Each has wifi, a TV, a desk, a hairdryer and tea and coffee. The pub's own booking page gives check-in from 2pm to 10.30pm, check-out by 10.30am and pets by arrangement; Trip.com lists a continental or full English breakfast for a fee and a charge for pets.
The station and the town centre are a short walk away, and there is a large car park. The River Frome runs nearby, and the Rodborough Common and the fort walk climbs the hill behind the pub.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 20:00 |
Open Monday to Saturday noon to 11pm, Sunday noon to 8pm. The pub publishes no separate kitchen times, so ring to check when food is served.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 7
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Play area · Real ale · Restaurant · Bar · Family rooms · Parking · Wi-Fi
- History
- A pub since 1891
- Parking
- Large car park at the pub.
- Without a car
- A short walk from Stroud station and the town centre.
Photos
From the kitchen 
Pub food 
The Clothiers Arms 
A bedroom
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Cotswold Canals Trust boat trips, Stroud 0.3 km away
- The Prince Albert 0.4 km away
- Premier Inn Stroud 0.7 km away
- Stroud Farmers' Market 0.8 km away
Sights nearby
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River Frome, Stroud
Sight · River · Stroud
The River Frome runs along the bottom of Stroud, where four streams join it to make the town's five valleys. It drove the mills of the Stroud cloth trade, and today a riverside path through Frome Banks and the canal towpath follow it below the town.
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St Laurence's Church, Stroud
Sight · Church · Stroud
Stroud's parish church, beside the Shambles: a fourteenth-century tower and spire with a High Victorian church of 1866 to 1868 behind it, carved by Joshua Wall, with a Weatherley rood screen, a screen by Peter Waals and about 80 brass plates on its north wall.
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Subscription Rooms, Stroud
Sight · Historic building · Stroud
Stroud's Subscription Rooms on George Street, paid for by public subscription in 1833 and now an arts venue run by a charity: a pedimented stone front with a carriage porch and balcony, where election results were once read out, and a bar open daily.
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Old Town Hall, Stroud
Sight · Historic building · Stroud
Stroud's market house of the 1590s in the Shambles beside St Laurence's, with an eight-light oriel on scrolled brackets, lion-mask arches and Victorian battlemented stair towers. Grade II*; seen from the market place.