Mission House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Mission house. 4 related planning applications.

Mission House

WRENN ID
hollow-balcony-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 December 1994
Type
Mission house
Address
Mission House, 15-21, Richmond Dale, BS8 2UB
OS grid reference
ST 572 747
Coordinates
51.46967, -2.61684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, originally a mission house and reading room dating to around 1860, now functions as an infant school. It is constructed of brick with blue and white brick and limestone dressings, featuring a left-hand lateral chimney stack and a double Roman hipped and gabled roof. The building follows a single-depth plan and is designed in a polychromatic Venetian Gothic Revival style.

The building has two storeys and an attic, presented as an 11-window range. The left-hand section, with a gabled design and attic, includes a set-back single-window projection to its left. This section features black brick bands, two-centred arched ground-floor windows, and a right-hand entrance door with black brick and alternating black and white brick voussoirs, as well as round panels set between. The first-floor windows have semicircular arched relieving arches with alternating coloured voussoirs, while the attic windows are similar, with a pointed relieving arch above the centre and a blind oculus.

The long right-hand block mirrors this design, with some painted black bands and voussoirs. A continuous ashlar band to the ground floor displays the inscription "THE MISSION HOUSE AND READING ROOM" in raised lettering. Ground-floor windows are 6/6-pane horns; above, there are plate-glass sashes.

The rear elevation showcases a left-hand gable, a hipped-roofed porch, an arcade of five small two-centred arched windows on the first floor, and a large round window within the gable, framed by a brick-on-edge surround. The right-hand section has uneven window placement, with outer doorways evident.

The interior has undergone extensive remodelling.

Local climate

Mission House 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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