3 And 5, Woodland Road

Nos. 3 and 5 Woodland Road are a pair of attached houses, now serving as a college, built in 1862 by George Gay. The houses are constructed from limestone ashlar and feature lateral and party wall stacks, with the roof not visible. They are designed in a Neoclassical style and consist of two storeys, a basement, and an attic, arranged in a double-depth plan with a symmetrical front that has projecting ends. The ground floor is banded to a panelled band, with balustrades below and above the outer three-light bow windows. There are paired pilasters on the first floor leading to a dentil cornice, and the attic storey has a moulded parapet and gabled ends. The entrances are located in the return elevations, featuring rusticated jambs and semicircular-arched doorways with two-leaf, two-panelled doors. The windows have elliptical heads, panelled jambs, bracketed cornices on the first floor, and plate-glass sashes with shouldered architraves, while the basement windows are 3/3-pane sashes. A cast-iron verandah connects the wings, supported by two elliptical arches. Inside, the entrance hall features a central open-well stair with cast-iron balusters and a ramped rail, along with marble fireplaces, modillion cornices, and panelled doors and shutters. The design is closely similar to Nos. 21-25 Tyndall's Park Road and other houses by Gay in Cotham Road.