Standish House (formerly Standish Hospital)

Standish House, formerly known as Standish Hospital, is a Grade II listed former country house that later served as a hospital until its closure in 2004. Built around 1830 as part of Lord Sherborne's estate, the house is constructed of rendered brick and features a plain first-floor cill band. It has a tiled, hipped roof with dormers and slab chimney stacks topped with pots, along with an eaves cornice and blocking course. The building is two stories high, with a basement and attics.

The symmetrical entrance front has three windows and a slightly recessed entrance bay. To the right is a service wing with three windows, where the central windows on both floors are blind. The sashes are recessed and hornless, with architraves on the outer bays; the ground floor right window is tripartite. A Greek Doric pedimented portico adorns the entrance.

Inside, the house retains the original staircase and some other original features. It is situated on elevated ground surrounded by fine specimen trees and shrubs. The house was once a family residence for Richard Potter, the father of Beatrice Potter, who, along with her husband Sidney Webb, was a founder of the Fabian Society. In 1914, the house was converted into Standish Red Cross Hospital for sick and wounded soldiers. After the war, it became a tuberculosis sanatorium, with its purchase by the County and City of Gloucester partly funded by the Gloucestershire Branch and Joint Council of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John as a permanent memorial to wartime efforts.