Tuscany House

Tuscany House is a mid-19th century house, now converted into flats, located in Redland, Bristol. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar with lateral and ridge stacks, and has a slate cross-gabled roof. It follows a double-depth plan and is built in an Italianate style.

The house is two storeys and an attic, originally with a two-window front. It features a plinth, long rusticated quoins, a plat band, sill bands, and brackets below overhanging eaves. A prominent entrance porch is set within the re-entrant angle between projecting, pedimented sections. The porch has a semicircular-arched doorway with key and impost stones, a plate-glass fanlight, and a two-leaf six-panel door. Ionic columns support an entablature and parapet pierced by half-moon shapes. The entrance front has semicircular-arched ground-floor windows with key and impost stones and 6/4-pane sashes, paired in a bay to the left-hand pedimented section, and a single window to the right. Above the single window is a flat-headed window with shouldered architraves and 4/4-pane sashes; paired pilaster strips are present to the lateral stack on the right side. A three-storey square tower is on the left of the road front, featuring a banded ground floor and paired pilaster strips, paired semicircular-arched ground-floor windows, and tripartite windows above with segmental-arched central lights on the second floor. Segmental-headed windows are found on the central section, and a semicircular-arched doorway is on the left-hand side. A single-storey projection is at the right end, with paired semicircular-arched windows, and a 20th-century first-floor addition. The garden front has a 13-window range, with two three-window canted bays to the left and centre, separated by a tripartite window. An octagonal crenellated tower is on the right-hand corner; shouldered architraves are present to the 4/4-pane sashes, which have panel aprons. The interior has undergone extensive remodelling and subdivision.