Oriel House

BRISTOL

ST315874 COTHAM ROAD, Cotham 901-1/35/1187 (West side) 04/03/77 No.45 Oriel House (Formerly Listed as: COTHAM ROAD (North side) No.45)

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House. c1845. Limestone ashlar with ashlar ridge stacks and slate roof with a hip behind the right-hand gable. Double-depth plan. Tudor Revival style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. 3 irregular sections, each stepping slightly forward of that to the left. The central gabled one has a left-hand porch with a shouldered gable and Tudor-arched doorway, and a similar 4-panel door set back within it; the gable has round Tudor finials with diagonal patterning, that to the right at the top of a narrow buttress. The windows have Tudor-arched heads to casements with a horizontal glazing bar, and label moulds. The middle gable has a 3-light ground-floor window beneath a canted 4-light oriel. The right-hand gable has a narrow full-height bay with 3 lights, without labels; either side of the gable are single-light windows, those to the right being blind. The left-hand gable has 3-light windows to ground and first floors; a matching gable in the left return. INTERIOR: large hall flagged with Portland stone, 3 arched recesses in the right wall with a fireplace in the middle, square piers to 4-centre arches separating the rear open-well stair, which has stone treads, cast-iron balusters and twisted newels; large stained-glass stair window to the rear; 4-panel doors and shutters; the left-hand room has a pendant ceiling rose and folding doors at the end to a conservatory.

Listing NGR: ST5863474082