St Monica's Court, St Monica's Home of Rest is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1993. Nurse's home, retirement home. 13 related planning applications.

St Monica's Court, St Monica's Home of Rest

WRENN ID
cold-pewter-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1993
Type
Nurse's home, retirement home
Address
St Monica's Court, St Monica's Home of Rest, Cote Lane, BS9 3UN
OS grid reference
ST 571 763
Coordinates
51.48436, -2.61914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Monica's Court, part of St Monica's Home of Rest, is a nurse's home for almshouses, now functioning as a retirement home. It was built around 1925 by Sir George Oatley for HH Wills. The building features squared, coursed Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, diagonal square ashlar cross-axial and central rear axial stacks, and a tiled cross-gabled roof, all designed in the Elizabethan revival style.

The structure has a single-depth plan with end cross wings, standing three storeys tall with an attic and a five-window range. The symmetrical front showcases projecting end gables with moulded coping and finials, along with three-storey canted bays that have paired cross windows on the ground and first floors. Below an ashlar parapet with finials, there is a four-light mullion window. The central entrance features two semicircular arches, wider in the middle, with half-glazed doors. The windows above follow the same style as the bays, with the central first-floor window divided by a fifth light, and there is a continuous range of mullioned attic windows beneath the overhanging eaves, arranged in a 4:6:4 pattern separated by blind panels, all with leaded metal casements.

At the back of the right-hand gable, there is a square crenellated tower. Inside, the building has a large entrance stair hall with a rear stair flight. For historical context, refer to St Monica's Rest Home.

Local climate

St Monica's Court, St Monica's Home of Rest 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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