Purdown Hospital, Castle and Screen Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. Hospital, tower, screen wall. 2 related planning applications.

Purdown Hospital, Castle and Screen Wall

WRENN ID
tenth-outpost-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Hospital, tower, screen wall
Address
Purdown Hospital, Castle and Screen Wall, Bell Hill, BS16 1BQ
OS grid reference
ST 613 762
Coordinates
51.48349, -2.5576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a mid-18th century tower and screen wall, built by Thomas Wright, originally as an eye-catcher within the landscape park for Stoke Park House, and linked to his Ragged Castle at Badminton. The structure is constructed from random Pennant rubble with dressed stone details. It comprises a round tower, with two set-backs, and varied window openings. A lancet doorway is present, featuring a double door and a barred tympanum, alongside lancet windows with alternating blue and red voussoirs, each with a tooled face. A screen wall extends to the left, towards the base of a second tower. Low in the screen wall are two crossed arrow slits, now incorporated into a late 19th-century house (which is not part of this listed structure). The interior has not been inspected. The tower was illustrated by Loxton around 1900.

Local climate

Purdown Hospital, Castle and Screen 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • 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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