This glass house was built in, or on the site of, St Catherine's hospital in Bedminster, on the Somerset side of the River Avon. Bedminster has been described as 'Bristol's first suburb'. The site is on the junction of what are now East Street and Bedminster Parade and was a tan yard in the early nineteenth century. The glass house is associated with the Little family and was described as a white flint glass house in 1752. One author credits the family with founding this glass house. As noted in the discussion on Red Lane glass house, John Little the elder came from Stourbridge and it was probably his son who was involved here. A Jacob Little took apprentices in his own right from 1706-1728, but it is not clear if this was at Bedminster. The choice of an existing building to start a glass house was common in the early seventeenth century, but by the early eighteenth century, purpose-built buildings adjacent to water transport or raw material sources was much more common. This suggests a relatively early date for the founding of this glass house.
The enlargement from the 1743 map below shows the approximate position of the glass house, on the south side of the road from Bristol, but it is not marked as such.