Glenside Hospital, Top Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1990. Lodge. 13 related planning applications.
Glenside Hospital, Top Lodge
- WRENN ID
- vacant-pavement-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1990
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Glenside Hospital, Top Lodge, 20a, Blackberry Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 625 761
- Coordinates
- 51.48271, -2.54076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glenside Hospital, Top Lodge is a lodge built around 1861, with a later extension. It features coursed, squared Pennant rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The building has a single-depth, T-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. The earlier corner block has rusticated quoin strips, a rubble plinth, a plat band, and ashlar ridge stacks linked by an arch with cornices. The deep eaves and verges add to its architectural character.
The openings include keyed, round-arched heads with ovolo moulds and flat jambs, while the extension windows have segmental heads. To the left, there is a door with a fanlight, a single-light ground-floor window, a similar window above the door, and a two-light projecting eaves dormer on brackets. The left return features a three-light canted ground-floor bay with a three-light window above, along with two-light ground- and first-floor windows. The windows are 4/4 sash. The interior has not been inspected.
Historically, Glenside Hospital was originally built as Stapleton Lunatic Asylum.
Local climate
Glenside Hospital, Top Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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