Stork House

Stork House comprises a pair of attached houses, later used as a hotel and now an office, located on Hotwell Road in Bristol. While originally believed to date to 1718, architectural style suggests a mid-18th century construction. The building is stuccoed with limestone dressings, featuring brick party wall stacks and a hipped double-pile pantile roof. It follows a double-depth plan and is built in the late Georgian style.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and a basement, and consists of a three-bay range. The left-hand side has a symmetrical facade, with full-height bows flanking the entrance. To the right is half of a similar house, with a single bay and a right-hand entrance. The facade includes doorcases with three-quarter attached columns, entablature blocks, cornices, and semicircular-arched doorways with fanlights, all containing six-panel doors. The wide three-light bows contain six-over-six pane sashes. There is a windowless section above the left-hand doorway and a single second-floor window above the right-hand one. A single dormer is present on the roof. The rear windows are predominantly nine-over-nine pane sashes.

The interior features half-panelled entrance halls, with the right-hand hall divided by a semicircular arch and the left-hand hall by a panelled elliptical arch. The rear open dogleg staircase has column-on-vase balusters, three per tread, a moulded ramped handrail and a curtail, with matching wainscot. Original features include four-panel doors on the ground floor, two-panel doors on the upper floors, panelled shutters, and marble fire surrounds with corner roundels.

Historically, the building was reported to have featured an inscription reading “1718” above the central bow. It was unlicensed in 1757 and subsequently operated as a hotel for many years, as documented in illustrations from the 1890s.