Northwoods House

Northwoods House, Old Gloucester Road, Winterbourne, BS36 1RS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136122
Date first listed:
10-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Northwoods House
Statutory Address:
Northwoods House, Old Gloucester Road, Winterbourne, BS36 1RS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136122
Date first listed:
10-Jul-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Northwoods House
Statutory Address 1:
Northwoods House, Old Gloucester Road, Winterbourne, BS36 1RS

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Northwoods House, Old Gloucester Road, Winterbourne, BS36 1RS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Frampton Cotterell
National Grid Reference:
ST 63996 82764

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21/10/2020

ST 68 SW
2/13

FRAMPTON COTTERELL CP
OLD GLOUCESTER ROAD
Northwoods House

(Formerly listed as Northwoods House, NORTHWOODS)

10.7.85

G.V.
II
House, formerly end pavilion of asylum. Built 1833 to 1835 for Dr. Henry Hawes Fox to the designs of Bristol architect Charles Underwood. Ashlar. Two storeys, three windows, all sashes, C20 tall doors off-centre right, plinth, band, centre bay breaks forward slightly and at first floor has four pilasters flanking a window with frame and pediment and carrying cornice and panelled parapet, flanking windows are in recessed panels below cornice. Identical rear elevation, now entered through C20 glazed entry at right (south).

Listing NGR: ST6399682764

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
35436
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
'Plans of an establishment lately erected by Henry Hawes Fox M.D. for the cure of a limited number of insane patients’. 1835/1875 (Gloucestershire Archives Q/AL/38/7/3)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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