Cabot House Muller Homes (Bristol City College)

ST5975 BRISTOL ASHLEY DOWN ROAD ASHLEY DOWN Cabot House: Muller Homes (Bristol City College) 901-1/32/10060

GV II Orphanage. 1870, by John Foster and Son of Bristol, for George Muller. Coursed Pennant stone rubble with Bath stone window frames. Slate hipped and gable-ended roofs with bracketed verges. Stone axial stacks with cornices. PLAN: Large building, the centre entrance block with flanking wings with cross-wings at the ends, and with workshop ranges at the back. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. The centre 3:3:3 bays, the projecting outer bays gabled, the centre with Tuscan tetrastyle stone portico with paired square columns, the centre breaking forward with round columns. 5-bay wings to left and right with end cross-wings and 2-storey 8-bay outer wings. 12-pane sashes in plain stone architraves. At rear, single-storey workshop range with similar sash windows. INTERIOR: Open-well staircase with cast-iron balustrade with mahogany handrail and cast-iron scrolls supporting stone treads; arched stair-well windows. NOTE: Cabot House was the fifth and last of the large barrack-type orphanage buildings to be built &om 1847 to 1870 by the Prussian-born pastor and philanthropist George Muller. The orphanage was built entirely &om voluntary contributions. SOURCE: Pevsner, N; Buildings ofEngland:Bristol; p. 457.

Listing NGR: ST5970975491