Walls and Gazebo Along North West Side of Sanctuary Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Wall, gazebo. 8 related planning applications.
Walls and Gazebo Along North West Side of Sanctuary Gardens
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-step-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Wall, gazebo
- Address
- Walls and Gazebo Along North West Side of Sanctuary Gardens, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 556 752
- Coordinates
- 51.47443, -2.63986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and gazebo along the northwest side of Sanctuary Gardens in Sneyd Park, Bristol, date from around 1880. They are constructed from squared Lias rubble, red brick, and limestone dressings, featuring a Byzantine-style apsidal gazebo flanked by two walls. The gazebo has a segmental arch at the front and a back wall with a Lias plinth, alternating courses of red brick and coursed limestone, topped with an arcade of semicircular arches. The rear of the gazebo is supported by buttresses, with the left wall displaying two lunettes, while the right wall is blind but matches the gazebo's banding.
Inside the gazebo, there is a mosaic floor and a coved, wooden panelled ceiling. Four octagonal piers, likely remnants of a pergola, stand at the front, along with a series of low walls that define a circular courtyard featuring a central plain fountain.
This structure was likely designed by Henry Dare Bryan, who also designed Sneyd Park House, built in 1880 for the Mardon family. The gazebo and adjacent walls are notable for their fine architectural detailing and their significance to the gardens of the house, justifying their listed status. However, other sections of wall from Sneyd Park Gardens do not possess the same level of completeness or architectural detail to warrant listing.
Local climate
Walls and Gazebo Along North West Side of Sanctuary Gardens receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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