Cook'S Folly House Trinder House

Cook's Folly House and Trinder House are an attached pair of houses built in 1858, located on Cook's Folly Road in Sneyd Park, Bristol. They are constructed from pennant rubble with limestone dressings and are designed in a picturesque Gothic Revival style. The buildings have an irregular double-depth plan, comprising two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a total of eight windows.

The design features an asymmetrical layout, with a left-hand octagonal tower and a right-hand round tower, both flanked by walls. The entrance to Trinder House (No.6) is located in the parapeted right-hand screen wall, featuring a wide two-centred arched doorway with a two-leaf door and a mullion overlight. The large round tower has a central doorway, a drip with small heads, and a corbel table beneath a tall crenellated parapet. The windows have flat arches and metal casements.

The entrance to Cook's Folly House (No.5) is situated in the three-storey octagonal tower, set in a battered wall with a bracketed two-centre arch leading to a two-leaf door with scrolled strap hinges. This entrance is below an angled two-light oriel, with a drip and tall crenellated parapet above. The windows here have shallow two-centre arch lintels and plate-glass sashes. The left corner features a slender octagonal machicolated and crenellated turret.

Inside, few original period details remain, with 20th-century panelling and dogleg stairs present. The design of these houses was originally intended to complement Cook's Folly, a prospect tower built by John Cook in 1696, which was visible in many views of the Avon Gorge before its removal in 1892.