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Latitude: 51.3978 / 51°23'52"N
Longitude: -2.3665 / 2°21'59"W
OS Eastings: 374601
OS Northings: 166594
OS Grid: ST746665
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.8HZ
Mapcode Global: VH96L.X4T8
Plus Code: 9C3V9JXM+4C
Entry Name: Woodland Cottage, (formerly the Sanatorium) Royal High School
Listing Date: 15 November 2011
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1405721
ID on this website: 101405721
Location: Beacon Hill, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Cottage
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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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