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Latitude: 51.4769 / 51°28'36"N
Longitude: -2.5815 / 2°34'53"W
OS Eastings: 359709
OS Northings: 175491
OS Grid: ST597754
Mapcode National: GBR CC9.2D
Mapcode Global: VH88N.64LM
Plus Code: 9C3VFCG9+Q9
Entry Name: Cabot House Muller Homes (Bristol City College)
Listing Date: 5 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375996
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469977
ID on this website: 101375996
Location: Ashley Down, Bristol, BS7
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Bishopston and Ashley Down
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Bishopston and St Andrews
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure
ST5975 BRISTOL ASHLEY DOWN ROAD
ASHLEY DOWN Cabot House: Muller Homes (Bristol City College)
901-1/32/10060
GV II
Orphanage. 1870, by John Foster and Son of Bristol, for George Muller. Coursed Pennant stone rubble with Bath stone window frames. Slate hipped and gable-ended roofs with bracketed verges. Stone axial stacks with cornices.
PLAN: Large building, the centre entrance block with flanking wings with cross-wings at the ends, and with workshop ranges at the back.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. The centre 3:3:3 bays, the projecting outer bays gabled, the centre with Tuscan tetrastyle stone portico with paired square columns, the centre breaking forward with round columns. 5-bay wings to left and right with end cross-wings and 2-storey 8-bay outer wings. 12-pane sashes in plain stone architraves. At rear, single-storey workshop range with similar sash windows.
INTERIOR: Open-well staircase with cast-iron balustrade with mahogany handrail and cast-iron scrolls supporting stone treads; arched stair-well windows.
NOTE: Cabot House was the fifth and last of the large barrack-type orphanage buildings to be built &om 1847 to 1870 by the Prussian-born pastor and philanthropist George Muller. The orphanage was built entirely &om voluntary contributions.
SOURCE: Pevsner, N; Buildings ofEngland:Bristol; p. 457.
Listing NGR: ST5970975491
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