Oriel House

Oriel House is a house built around 1845, located on Cotham Road in Bristol. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features ashlar ridge stacks and a slate roof with a hip behind the right-hand gable. The building is designed in the Tudor Revival style and has two storeys with a five-window range.

The façade consists of three irregular sections, each slightly stepping forward from the one on the left. The central gabled section includes a left-hand porch with a shouldered gable and a Tudor-arched doorway, which has a similar four-panel door set back within it. The gable is adorned with round Tudor finials and diagonal patterning, with one finial positioned at the top of a narrow buttress. The windows feature Tudor-arched heads above casements with a horizontal glazing bar and label moulds. The middle gable has a three-light window on the ground floor beneath a canted four-light oriel. The right-hand gable contains a narrow full-height bay with three lights, lacking labels, and single-light windows on either side, with the right-hand ones being blind. The left-hand gable has three-light windows on both the ground and first floors, and there is a matching gable on the left return.

Inside, the large hall is flagged with Portland stone and features three arched recesses in the right wall, with a fireplace in the middle. Square piers support four-centre arches that separate the rear open-well stair, which has stone treads, cast-iron balusters, and twisted newels. A large stained-glass stair window is located at the rear. The interior also includes four-panel doors and shutters, while the left-hand room features a pendant ceiling rose and folding doors leading to a conservatory.