Bishopston guidebook

Bishopston is one of Bristol's trendiest areas, a fact that is reflected in its house prices which tend to be above the city average.

As with neighbouring Cotham and Redland, proximity to both of the city's universities, to the Brunel campus of the City of Bristol College and to the main teaching hospitals has made Bishopston an extremely popular place with students and young professionals.

And the fact that it's split by the bustling Gloucester Road with its unique shops, restaurants and music venues adds to its attraction.

To cater for the very large rental market in the area, a sizeable proportion of properties have been snapped up by buy-to-let investors and converted into flats or student house shares.

However, some estate agents say that due to the increase in student lets in Bristol city centre and the very strong demand for family homes in Bishopston, a number of the previously converted rental properties are being turned back into private houses. 

This is, after all, predominantly a densely residential, principally middle-class area, with a complex network of quiet streets offering a very mixed housing stock.

Properties range from one-bedroom conversion flats in imposing, bay-fronted period houses to large five- and six-bed family homes with large gardens.

Property in Bishopston

Victorian homes on two and three floors dominate the Bishopston area but you'll also find smaller terraced houses dating from the 1920s such as those in Bishop Road or the 1930s such as those in Longmead Avenue. 

New-builds are fairly rare in Bishopston, although there are one-off new houses and small developments, for example the five home Arundel Court and the 16 executive apartments at Egerton Court in Egerton Road.

There are also a number of quite large retirement developments, such as Horfield Court in Seymour Road.

Bishopston's property prices are much on a par with nearby St Andrews Park and its streets of Victorian villas, and 'bohemian' property hotspot Montpelier, while you would expect to pay a lot more in Cotham, Redland and Westbury Park.

Further up the Gloucester Road, prices in Horfield tend to be marginally lower than those in Bishopston.

In Demand

Homes in the Redland Green School catchment area in Bishopston are particularly sought-after, especially if they have retained their period features.

And in the highly desirable Berkeley Road, Egerton Road and Kings Drive enclaves, the large well-designed three-bed homes with their substantial gardens can cost you around the price of a five-bed house in many other areas of Bristol.

Properties in Brynland Avenue and neighbouring streets are also much in demand.