Muller Lodge

Muller Lodge, formerly known as Dalton House, is a mid-19th century building located in Cotham Park, Bristol. Originally a house, it now serves as offices. The structure is designed in the Italianate style and features stucco with limestone dressings, ashlar ridge stacks, and a slate hip roof. It has a double-depth plan, two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a three-window range.

The symmetrical front of the building includes chamfered quoins, a string course, and deep eaves. Pennant steps lead up to a deeply recessed two-leaf half-glazed door, which has shutters set in the reveals, narrow stained-glass sidelights, and a rectangular overlight. The ground-floor windows are tripartite with panels beneath, architraves, and keys; the middle first-floor window is set in a projecting panel with a shouldered architrave and faceted key, flanked by late 19th-century sash windows.

To the side, there is a tripartite window with a central hornless 4/4-pane sash, next to a tented verandah that leads to a 20th-century door and window, with a 6/6-pane plain sash above. Between the two central stacks, there is a raised 20th-century dormer.

Inside, the central hall features a glazed screen with a semicircular overlight, a patterned tiled floor, and a modillion cornice. It is supported by three-quarter red granite Corinthian columns that lead to semicircular arches. A central dogleg stair to the right has cast-iron balusters and a rail that curves down to a carved mythical beast at the bottom, with a large stained-glass stair light on the half-landing. The rear left-hand room contains scagliola columns, and throughout the interior, there are six-panel doors, four-panel shutters, and marble fireplaces.