Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hotel · Stroud
Premier Inn Stroud
A Premier Inn in the Grade II-listed Stratford Lodge, opposite Stratford Park in Stroud, with free parking and a pub next door for meals.
A dependable budget base opposite Stratford Park, half a mile from the station, with free parking.
- Good: Free on-site parking
- Good: Half a mile from Stroud station
- Good: Family and accessible rooms
- Worth knowing: Register your car on the reception tablet when you arrive
- Worth knowing: No restaurant of its own: meals at the independently run pub next door
- Worth knowing: All rooms reached by stairs; no air conditioning
About
Premier Inn Stroud is in Stratford Lodge, a Grade II-listed building on Stratford Road, opposite Stratford Park and close to the leisure centre and a Tesco, in Stroud. Stroud station is about half a mile away.
Rooms are double, twin, family and accessible, with free wifi and tea and coffee, and king-size beds in the doubles. The accessible rooms are all doubles with a lowered bath, but Premier Inn notes that every room here is reached by stairs. There is no air conditioning; each room has a high-speed fan instead. Parking on site is free, but cars must be registered on the tablet at reception. The hotel's own restaurant closed at the end of September 2026: for now breakfast and dinner are at Queensway Inns next door, an independently run pub serving pub classics, lighter bites and local ale, and Premier Inn plans a breakfast room of its own from March 2027.
It suits anyone wanting a low-cost bed close to the town, by car or by train. For a walk, Rodborough Common and its fort are on the hill south of the town.
The details
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 12 noon
- Features
- Family rooms · Accessible rooms · Parking · Wi-Fi
- History
- In Stratford Lodge, a Grade II-listed building
- Parking
- Free on-site parking, managed by Horizon Parking: register your car on the tablet at reception. Satnav GL5 4AG; what3words dolly.sage.games.
- Without a car
- Stroud station is half a mile away.
Photos
The bar at the Old Nelson Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Museum in the Park 0.2 km away
- Cotswold Canals Trust boat trips, Stroud 0.5 km away
- Salt Bakehouse 0.5 km away
- Woodruffs 0.6 km away
Sights nearby
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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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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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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.
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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.