Standish House (formerly Standish Hospital)

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SO 80 NW 1771/7/10014

STANDISH Standish House (formerly Standish Hospital)

(Formerly listed as Standish Hospital)

II Former country house, later a hospital, closed in 2004. c1830, built as part of Lord Sherborne's estate. Rendered brick with plain first floor cill band. Tiled, hipped roof with dormers and slab chimney stacks with pots; eaves cornice and blocking course. Two stories, basement and attics. Symmetrical entrance front of three windows with slightly recessed entrance bay; service wing of right of three windows, the central ones on both floors being blind. Recessed, hornless sashes, those to the outer bays of the house being architraved; ground floor right is tripartite. Greek Doric pedimented portico to the entrance.

Interior: retains the original stair and some original features.

History: the house stands on elevated ground with fine specimen trees and shrubs. It was occupied as a family residence by Richard Potter, father of Beatrice who, with her husband Sidney Webb, was one of the founders of the Fabian Society. In 1914 the house became Standish Red Cross Hospital for sick and wounded soldiers. Following the war it served as a TB sanatorium, its purchase by the County & City of Gloucester being 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 of the war work.

Listing NGR: SO8169606751