Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Attached Front Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Hospital. 1 related planning application.

Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Attached Front Walls

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Hospital
Address
Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Attached Front Walls, St Michaels Hill, BS2 8BH
OS grid reference
ST 583 734
Coordinates
51.45887, -2.6005
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, built in 1885 by Robert Carwen, is a hospital located on St Michael's Hill in Bristol. It is designed in the Tudor Gothic Revival style and constructed from red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, featuring ridge stacks and a cross-gabled tiled roof. The building has a double-depth plan, two storeys, and an attic, with a symmetrical front that includes shallow end gables connected by a lower parapet, sill and lintel bands, and moulded copings.

A prominent feature is the large, full-height ashlar porch, which has clasping octagonal buttresses topped with crenellations. The porch contains a Tudor-arched doorway framed in a rectangular shape with two orders and pointed overlights above. Above the doorway is a three-light oriel window with a moulded base, Tudor-arched windows, a narrow overlight, and a panelled, crenellated parapet. The building also features mullion and transom windows with metal casements, three-light windows flanking the door, and cross windows in the outer canted bays with openwork parapets. The first-floor inner windows have cinquefoil-headed lights, while the outer ones have Tudor-arched heads with Perpendicular tracery. The gables are adorned with two-light louvred windows with labels, and panels between the inner windows are inscribed with "HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN." There are two large cross-axial stacks.

Inside, the entrance hall features a cornice with Tudor roses and two two-centre arches supported by a central octagonal pier leading to a rear open-well stair. The hospital is complemented by attached rubble walls with moulded copings at the entrance.

Local climate

Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Attached Front Walls 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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