Royal Hospital For Sick Children And Attached Front Walls

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.