Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 2011. School, house.
Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School
- WRENN ID
- salt-bastion-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 2011
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School, Lansdown Road, BA1 5TA
- OS grid reference
- ST 746 665
- Coordinates
- 51.3978, -2.36646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodland Cottage, formerly the Sanatorium of the Royal High School, is a school sanatorium built in Gothic style between 1883 and 1884, later converted into two houses in 1919. It was designed by WG Habershon.
The building is constructed from rock-faced Pennant limestone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof. It has a cruciform plan with a lantern over a central hall. The exterior is single storey with an attic, showcasing mullion and transom windows. There is a pointed arch doorway located in a gabled porch, which includes a plank door. The central lantern and vent have a conical roof, while the rest of the building is topped with steeply pitched roofs and a tall chimney stack with offsets.
The interior has not been inspected, but it is likely to have been altered due to its subdivision into two houses.
Local climate
Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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