A woman standing outside the south-west front of Frenchay Park House, with another figure stood at an open window on the ground floor

Date:: 1860 - 1890

Location:: Frenchay Park House, Winterbourne, Frenchay, South Gloucestershire; Show all locations

Sisters' House, Winterbourne, Frenchay Park, South Gloucestershire

Reference:: OP34350

Type:: Photograph (Albumen Print)

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Description

Frenchay Park House was sold to the Corporation of Bristol in 1921 and was coverted into a sanitorium and orthorpaedic hospital. During the Second World War it was used as a training centre for American medical personnel, and it later became the headquarters for the North Bristol NHS Trust. It is Grade II listed under the name Sisters' House.

The photograph is mounted alongside OP34347, OP34348 and OP34349. A handwritten note underneath the image describes the building as 'Mrs Root's House, Frenchay, near Bristol'.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/34 Early Photographic Print Collection: Oxfordshire; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Georgian Country House