Burwalls

House, now college building. Built in 1873 by architects J Foster and J Wood, with a south-east extension including music room added by Sir Frank Wills in 1906. The building is constructed of orange-red brick with limestone ashlar dressings, and features a stone-coped plain tile roof with carved finials. Brick ridge and end stacks have moulded stone cornicing to diagonally-set flues. The style is Jacobethan.

The building has a double-depth front block with a central stairhall rising 2 storeys and an attic, with service wings to the rear of one storey and an attic. The south-east extension rises 2 storeys. The garden front presents a symmetrical 5-window range with 3 gables and a central 2-storey stone porch. The porch has panelled double doors set within a rusticated semi-circular arch, with a fine doorcase featuring barley-sugar classical columns supporting a segmental pediment broken by a heraldic cartouche. The first-floor windows are 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed, framed by debased Ionic pilasters and a carved frieze, with an openwork parapet and corner urns. Lead rainwater goods feature chevron detailing. String courses to the porch continue across the front, linking the heads and cills of the windows. 2-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows flank the porch, with similar 3-light windows in the projecting outer bays. The first-floor windows are crowned by scrolled pediments with central cartouches; the windows flanking the porch have scrolled aprons. 2-light stone-mullioned attic windows light the gables, with hipped dormers. Other elevations follow a similar style with mostly smaller windows. The left return features a long bay window, probably from 1906, with a cartouche in a scrolled pediment and flanking Ionic columns with obelisk finials to urns surmounting the parapet. The rear elevation has a cupola above a boldly projecting stair tower. A one-storey corridor links the service wing to a porch onto Bridge Road, with a similar semi-circular arch as the front porch, flanked by debased Ionic columns and an openwork parapet with spherical finials. The south-east wing follows a similar style in a 4-window range, strongly articulated by Ionic columns with linking cornicing. Its 2-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows have eared and lugged architraves, with similar scrolled pediments to the ground-floor windows and front bay.

The interior contains several features of note from the 1873 build: panelled doors, a grand stairhall with panelled doors and barley-sugar turned balusters to an open-well staircase, and debased classical-style fireplaces with decorative tilework. Windows retain their original turnbuckles and fittings. An elaborate Jacobethan-style doorcase leads to the rear corridor, articulated by semi-circular arched arcades, blind to the left side and fenestrated to the right. The panelled dining room to the left, probably dating from 1906, features Jacobethan-style carving to the friezes and overmantle, fluted pilasters, a fireplace with carved detail and a coffered ceiling. The music room to the right, also from 1906, has a recess to the right (a former organ chamber) and a rear fireplace set in arches with blocked architraves. This fireplace incorporates reset early 17th-century carved panelling to the overmantle. The room features a fine strapwork plaster ceiling and a very fine Arts and Crafts frieze with pastoral scenes executed in the style of Walter Crane. The building occupies a prominent position next to Clifton Bridge.