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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Hospital
- 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.
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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
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