Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Hospital.
Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- WRENN ID
- stony-niche-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers, Clifton Down Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 570 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45609, -2.61913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walker Dunbar Hospital, formerly known as Duncan House, is a house that has been converted into a hospital. It dates from the late 18th century, with a porch and mansard roof added in 1884 by C. Hansom. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar, featuring brick gable stacks and a slate mansard roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in a mid-Georgian style. The structure stands three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a six-window range. The front is symmetrical, with a one-window left-hand extension that is set back. The ground floor is rusticated, leading to a plat band, cornice, and parapet.
The single-storey porch includes pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment, with jambs that have imposts and a semicircular arch leading to two-leaf glazed 20th-century doors. The windows on the ground floor have keys and plate-glass sashes, while the first floor features 6/6-pane sashes, and the second floor has plate-glass sashes. There are also five 3/3-pane dormers and two rear semicircular-arched stair windows.
Inside, the interior is largely from the 19th century, with an entrance hall that has an elliptical arch leading to a central rear open-well staircase. This staircase features column balusters and a ramped moulded rail, along with a modillion cornice and panelled doors and shutters. The property also includes attached brick and rubble front garden walls and ashlar piers. Walker Dunbar Hospital is similar to Mortimer House next door, as both were town houses built before the terraces took over in Clifton.
Local climate
Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers 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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