Brunel House Muller Homes (City of Bristol College)

Brunel House, also known as Muller Homes and part of the City of Bristol College, is an orphanage built in 1857 by John Foster and Son of Bristol for George Muller. The building is constructed from coursed Pennant stone with Bath stone window frames and features slate hipped and gable-ended roofs with bracketed verges. It has stone axial stacks with cornices.

The structure is large, with a central entrance block flanked by long wings and cross-wings at each end. It stands three storeys tall, with the central block consisting of three bays on each side, the outer bays being gabled. The centre features a Tuscan tetrastyle stone portico supported by paired square columns. Each wing has five bays and end cross-wings, with 12-pane sash windows set in plain stone architraves. The rear elevation is similar but lacks the portico.

Inside, there is an open-well staircase with a cast-iron balustrade, a mahogany handrail, and cast-iron scrolls supporting stone treads, along with arched stair-well windows. Brunel House was the second of five large barrack-type orphanage buildings constructed between 1847 and 1870 by George Muller, who built the orphanage entirely from voluntary contributions.