3 And 5, Woodland Road

BRISTOL

ST5873NW WOODLAND ROAD, Cotham 901-1/4/1234 (East side) 04/03/77 Nos.3 AND 5 (Formerly Listed as: WOODLAND ROAD (East side) Nos.3-9 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now college. 1862. Built by George Gay. Limestone ashlar with lateral and party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. A symmetrical front has projecting ends, banded ground floor to a panelled band, with balustrades below and above outer 3-light bows, paired first-floor pilasters to a dentil cornice and an attic storey with a moulded parapet and gabled ends; entrances in the return elevations. Rusticated jambs to semicircular-arched doorways and 2-leaf 2-panelled doors. Windows have elliptical heads, panelled jambs, first-floor bracketed cornices and plate-glass sashes, with shouldered architraves; 3/3-pane basement sashes. A cast-iron verandah extends between the wings with 2 elliptical arches. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a central open-well stair with cast-iron balusters and ramped rail, marble fireplaces, modillion cornices and panelled doors and shutters. A closely similar design to Nos 21-25 Tyndall's Park Road (qv), and other of Gay's houses in Cotham Road. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 274).

Listing NGR: ST5810973710