Cotham House

BRISTOL

ST5873NW COTHAM HILL, Cotham 901-1/4/1158 (South side) 25/04/90 Cotham House

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House, now nurses' home. Mid C19, remodelled 1905 for Sir George White. Limestone ashlar and render, rendered lateral and axial stacks, and a slate and pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan, service wing at an angle to the right. 2 storeys and cellar; 10-window range. An asymmetrical garden front has a banded ashlar ground floor to a dentil cornice, rendered first floor to a frieze, modillion cornice and parapet, and the remains of a blind balustrade above the door. The left end breaks forward with a 3-light bow; open central porch has paired 3/4 Ionic columns, to an overlight and 2-leaf panelled door. Ground-floor windows have fluted keys and a moulded sill band, plain first-floor windows, with plate-glass sashes. The road front has an asymmetrical elevation with 2 wide 5-light bows and a band of vermiculated stone, and a curved 2-storey porch at the left end in the angle with the service wing, with curved Pennant steps, Tuscan distyle-in-antis entrance to a doorway with an architrave, stained-glass fanlight and 7-panel door, and flanking windows; above, pilasters frame a mullion and transom window with elliptical heads and timber cornices, the top lights leaded and stained. Over the bows is a vermiculated band and pediment with dentil blocks. Sevice wing to the left of the door. INTERIOR: a fine and complete Edwardian interior with elaborate plaster ceilings, fine mahogany joinery and parquetry floors: left-hand stair hall has an open-well stair with fluted column-on-vase balusters, curtail and wreathed and ramped rail; the service wing has a stair with column newels and a ramped rail; good panelled doors with swagged pediments, room to front right has walnut doors, panelling and fireplace; good fireplaces with overmantels and mirrors, and a club fender; principal rear room has stone columns to the bay; bathrooms and cloakrooms have marble panels; brick vaulted cellars. HISTORICAL NOTE: remodelled by Sir George White, the industrialist. One of the first houses to be fitted with electrical lighting.

Listing NGR: ST5810073879