Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Hospital. 2 related planning applications.
Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital
- WRENN ID
- eastward-vault-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital, Lodge Road, BS15 1LF
- OS grid reference
- ST 642 745
- Coordinates
- 51.46881, -2.51626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital is a hospital built between 1905 and 1907 by F Bligh Bond. It features squared red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, Bath stone ashlar, and a green slate roof with chimneys positioned in front of the ridge. The building has an L-shaped plan and is designed in the Queen Anne style with influences from Edwardian Baroque. It is two stories tall with an attic and has a twelve-window range.
The main block includes a central entrance bay that is pedimented, with a ground floor that has banded rustication. This leads to a Gibbs surround framing a round-headed door that features a shouldered architrave and a pronounced, grotesque key. Above the door is an open, scrolled pediment that contains a keyed oculus adorned with floral carving. The first-floor round-headed window is framed with an architrave and a Gibbs surround, and it has a bayed balustrade. A modillioned pediment with a cartouche and relief ribbons inscribed "HANDEL COSSHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 1905" is also present. The ground and first-floor windows have shouldered architraves and keys, with the first-floor windows being segmental-arched and featuring panelled aprons beneath.
The middle of the wings has canted bays with four-light windows and parapets. The building is topped with a deep modillion cornice, sprocketed eaves, and dormers with two and three lights, which also have side windows and modillion pediments. At the right end of the building is a square tower and a flat-roofed block. Between the two wings is an octagonal tower that includes a balcony with iron railings, clocks on alternate faces, and is crowned by an octagonal dome surrounded by a balustrade with urns, topped with a cupola on columns. The left wing features a mansard roof, with a three-story block located behind it. The interior of the hospital was remodelled in the 20th century.
Local climate
Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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