Cabot House Muller Homes (Bristol City College)

Cabot House, also known as Muller Homes (Bristol City College), is an orphanage built in 1870 by John Foster and Son of Bristol for George Muller. The building is constructed from coursed Pennant stone rubble with Bath stone window frames and features slate hipped and gable-ended roofs with bracketed verges. It has stone axial stacks with cornices.

The structure is large, with a central entrance block flanked by wings and cross-wings at each end, along with workshop ranges at the back. It stands three storeys tall, with the central section comprising three bays, and projecting outer bays that are gabled. The centre features a Tuscan tetrastyle stone portico with paired square columns, while the centre breaks forward with round columns. The wings on either side have five bays, with end cross-wings and two-storey outer wings that have eight bays. The windows are 12-pane sashes set in plain stone architraves. At the rear, there is a single-storey workshop range with similar sash windows.

Inside, there is an open-well staircase with a cast-iron balustrade, a mahogany handrail, and cast-iron scrolls supporting stone treads, along with arched stair-well windows. Cabot House was the fifth and last of the large barrack-type orphanage buildings constructed from 1847 to 1870 by George Muller, who was a Prussian-born pastor and philanthropist. The orphanage was funded entirely through voluntary contributions.