Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School

Woodland Cottage, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA

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Overview

A former sanatorium, built 1883-4, for isolating sick girls at the Royal High SchoolItproved to be unsatisfactory and was later divided into two houses in 1919. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405721
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School
Statutory Address:: Woodland Cottage, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405721
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School
Location Description:: Woodland Cottage is situated within the grounds of the Royal Bath High School.
Statutory Address 1:: Woodland Cottage, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA

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

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

Location

Statutory Address:: Woodland Cottage, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST7459566589

Summary

A former sanatorium, built 1883-4, for isolating sick girls at the Royal High School. It proved to be unsatisfactory and was later divided into two houses in 1919.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: as a specialist school building competently executed in the Gothic style; * Group value: with the other Grade II listed buildings of the Royal High School.

History

The Sanatorium, for isolating sick girls from the main school, was built when the school was extended. However, in 1919 it proved unsatisfactory and was divided into two houses. The building forms an important group with other school buildings on the site.

Details

A school sanatorium in Gothic style, later converted to two houses. 1883-1884, converted 1919. By WG Habershon.

MATERIALS: rock faced Pennant limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: a cruciform plan with a lantern over a central hall.

EXTERIOR: single storey with attic. Mullion and transom windows. Pointed arch doorway in a gabled porch with a plank door. The central lantern/vent has a conical roof, and the rest of the building has steeply pitched roofs with tall chimney stack with offsets.

INTERIOR: Not inspected, but likely to have been altered as a result of its subdivision.

Sources

None.

Legal

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