Sisters' House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. House, offices. 3 related planning applications.

Sisters' House

WRENN ID
tall-portal-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1984
Type
House, offices
Address
Sisters' House, Frenchay Hospital Grounds, Winterbourne
OS grid reference
ST 638 776
Coordinates
51.4962, -2.52156
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sisters' House, formerly known as Frenchay Park, is a house that has been converted into offices. It was built in the mid to late 18th century and extended in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has slate roofs. The main block is three storeys high with an attic and features five windows. The later wings are two storeys and have three windows in cylindrical bays. All windows are glazing bar sashes.

The front of the main block has a central Ionic glazed porch with a fanlight above the door. The windows are framed with moulded architraves that are vertically joined by fielded panels. At the ends, rusticated pilasters rise to a cornice beneath a tall parapet that has a balustrade, newels, and urns. The later wings also have moulded architraves, a cornice, and a low parapet, with the outer edges breaking forward to rusticated corner pilasters topped with urns. These wings return plainly around the earlier house and are connected at the back by a later low wing, creating a simple garden front.

Inside, there is a panelled entrance hall with fluted square columns and a Doric cornice, as well as a marble floor with black dots. The main staircase is an open well design with a moulded handrail and turned barley sugar balusters. There is also an early 19th-century rear staircase located off the vestibule, which is top-lit and features Ionic columns.

Local climate

Sisters' House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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