Major projects

The Galleries, Bristol

Provided critical built heritage and archaeological consultancy input over a five year period, helping to secure hybrid planning consent for a complex urban regeneration project in a highly sensitive heritage context adjacent to Bristol Castle and two listed buildings. Building assessment, setting and heritage views assessment and archaeological assessments were undertaken to inform development of a scheme acceptable to key stakeholders. Key heritage stakeholder engagement throughout was critical in securing consent.

Plot 3, Bedminster Green, Bristol

Part of a team which secured consent for a major university student accommodation development in a sensitive heritage context adjacent to Bedminster Conservation Area, where consideration of building height, massing and materiality was critical to impacts on a range of built heritage assets. Work included preparation of a Heritage and Archaeology Statement, regular input into design team meetings, heritage impact assessment of final proposals, along with scoping and management oversight of archaeological field evaluations and excavations of the former Capper Pass & Son's Bedminster Smelting Works site, the results of which were published in 2025 by Wessex Archaeology.

Bath Fire Station

Provided baseline heritage and archaeology statements, heritage and archaeological impact statements, historic building assessment and recording, assessment of potential World Heritage Site impacts, geoarchaeological project management, design team input and engagement throughout with key heritage stakeholders for the proposed redevelopment of the 1938-9 fire station in a highly sensitive heritage context within the dual-inscribed Bath World Heritage Site and adjacent to the Grade II* Cleveland Bridge.

Francis Hotel Bath

Heritage and archaeological advice on the refurbishment of this Grade I listed hotel designed by John Wood, located at the heart of the Georgian new town and dual-inscribed Bath World Heritage Site. A highly detailed historic building assessment and engagement throughout with the project team and key heritage stakeholders, including Historic England and the local authority's Conservation Officer, enabled development of a sensitive scheme for refurbishment, conserving the heritage significance of this highly important building whilst enabling the hotel to meet customer requirements and improve energy efficiency.​

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Other projects

County Hall, Taunton, Somerset, Historic Building Recording

Detailed photographic coverage of exterior and internal details across the four storey's and basement of E. Vincent Harris's neo-Georgian inter-war municipal building, listed Grade II, prior to refurbishment of council offices. 
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University of Bath Student Accommodation, Claverton Down

Heritage and Archaeology Statement, settings assessment and World Heritage Site impact assessment for a major student accommodation development adjacent to the dual-inscribed Bath World Heritage Site.

Armada House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol, Heritage Statement

Building recording, documentary research and significance assessment of Grade II listed former Bristol Water Works Company headquarters building by Henry Williams. Analysis of William’s superb building plans against the existing layout, coupled with research into the building’s recent history, enabled detailed phase plans to be produced for each floor, identifying significant original fabric, fixtures and fittings, along with less important elements which could be removed or adapted. The resulting information enabled the architects to draw up plans for refurbishment of the building for office usage which preserved or enhanced the heritage significance and legibility of Williams' original design. The Client commented ‘Your heritage statement was crucial in having such a straightforward run through planning.’​
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Publications

• Barber, A., Cox, S. and Hancocks, A. 2006 ‘A Late Iron Age and Roman Farmstead at RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan. Evaluation and Excavation 2002-3’, Archaeologica Cambrensis 155, 49-115
• Davenport, P. Cox, S. and Young, R. 2015 ‘Excavations at 3 Redcliff Street, 2003’ in Medieval and Post-Medieval Occupation and Industry in the Redcliffe Suburb of Bristol: Excavations at 1-2 and 3 Redclif Street, 2003-2010. Cotswold Archaeology Monograph No. 8
• Coleman, L., Havard, T., Collard, M., Cox, S. and McSloy, E. 2008 Denham, The Lea. South Midlands Archaeology 38, 27-29
• Cox, S. 2012/13 ‘Excavation of a late medieval hearth at no. 31 High Street, Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, 2013’, Bristol Avon Archaeology 25, 21-8
• Cox, S. and Holbrook, N. 2009 ‘First-century AD salt-making at St Georges, Worle, North Somerset Levels: Summary Report on Archaeological Investigations 2001-2004’, Archaeol. Severn Estuary 20, 99-121
• Cox, S. 2008 Excavation of a tannery, Quaker Meeting House and Methodist Tabernacle at Broadmead, Bristol. Post-Medieval Archaeology 42, 333-337
• Cox, S., Barber, A. and Collard, M. 2006 ‘The Archaeology and History of the Former Bryan Brothers’ Garage Site, Deanery Road, Bristol: The evolution of an urban landscape’, Trans. Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol. Soc. 124, 55-71
• Cox, S. 1998 Further evidence of a Romano-British agricultural settlement at Filwood Park, Bristol, Bristol and Avon Archaeology 14
• Cox, S., 1998 Excavations on the medieval waterfront at Bridge Parade, Bristol, 1998. Bristol Avon Archaeology 15, 1-26.
• Cox, S. 1997 Bristol's medieval and Civil War defences. Rescue News 73
• Cox, S. 1996 An archaeological evaluation at Temple Way, Bristol. Bristol Avon Archaeology 13, 53-56​

Contributor/Project Manager:

• Ridgeway, V. and Watts, M. (eds) 2013 Friars, Quakers, Industry and Urbanisation: the Archaeology of the Broadmead Expansion Project, Cabot Circus, Bristol, 2005–8 CA monograph 5/PCA monograph 16, Cotswold Archaeology and Pre-Construct Archaeology, Cirencester and London
• Mason, C. with Dungworth, D. and Smith, R.  2025  Capper Pass & Son's Bedminster Smelting Works Wessex Occasional Paper 2025, Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury