Emmaus House and Attached Front Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Convent. 8 related planning applications.
Emmaus House and Attached Front Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- worn-doorway-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- Convent
- Address
- Emmaus House and Attached Front Garden Wall, Hensman's Hill, BS8 1BN
- OS grid reference
- ST 571 728
- Coordinates
- 51.45332, -2.61771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Emmaus House, now a convent, is an attached house dating from the early 18th century. It is built of Flemish-bond brick with limestone dressings and features gable stacks, although the roof is not visible. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the early Georgian style, standing two storeys tall with an attic and a symmetrical front that includes five windows. The façade is made of red brick with yellow headers, and it has rusticated pilaster strips along a ground-floor string, a first-floor cornice, and moulded parapet coping.
The mid-18th century doorway is notable for its pilasters supporting an open pediment, a semicircular-arched entrance with a teardrop fanlight and lantern, and a door with six raised panels. The windows feature rubbed brick flat arches with keys, 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames, and 3/3-pane windows in the attic. There are semicircular stair windows on the right return of the building.
Inside, the entrance hall has a semicircular panelled arch leading to a rear right-hand open dogleg stair, which is adorned with column balusters, column newels, and a moulded ramped rail. There is also an early 19th-century marble fireplace.
Additionally, there is an attached squared coursed front garden wall to the northeast, which includes panelled ashlar piers, spear-headed cast-iron gates, and railings.
Local climate
Emmaus House and Attached Front Garden Wall 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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