Images from a Historic Building Recording Survey at Cedar House, Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol, December 2021
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Introduction
This collection comprises images from historic building recording of Cedar House, Blackberry Hill, Bristol commissioned by Vistry Partnerships and undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in December 2021. The work was required to record the building prior to its conversion to apartments under planning permission 16/06831/F. Condition 4 of this permission required the building to be recorded to an Historic England Level 2 standard (a 'descriptive' recording) following 'soft strip' but prior to conversion.
Cedar House is a former purpose built infirmary to the Bristol Union Workhouse, which then became, until recently, the Manor Park Hospital site. Cedar House remained part of the Manor Park complex, latterly being a Psychology Unit. The wider site is being redeveloped under 16/05398/LA and 16/05376/F with a combination of new buildings and conversion of the historic buildings.
The main Manor Park Hospital building (the former main workhouse building) is listed at Grade II and Cedar House is considered curtiliage listed by association. It is constructed of pennant stone in a Neo-Georgian institutional style, with a still discernible infirmary floorplan incorporating large wards serviced by a central corridor and smaller ancillary and service spaces. It has seen much alteration and subdivision as part of its 20th century use, however much of this had been stripped away by the time of the site visit.
