Address: Hampton House, St Michaels Hill, Cotham, Bristol, BS8 1PH
The Old Homeopathic Hospital Gardens at Bristol, now known as Hampton House, was a purpose-built Homeopathic Hospital in Clifton, Bristol. Opened on the 20th of May 1925 it was financially backed by Melville Wills, of the Wills tobacco firm, who was also President of the Hospital. The gardens were an integral part of its therapeutic design. At the time they proclaimed that ‘every ward has its own separate sun balcony for open-air treatment,’ the garden itself contained features such as revolving shelters, a pond and Pulhamite rockeries. Most are long gone but traces of the institutional setting remain, look carefully and you can still see the echoes of the domestic garden owned by Wills and his wife.
