Description

ST5975 BRISTOL ASIll.EY DOWN ROAD
ASIll.EYDOWN
901-1/32/10061 Davy House: Muller House
(Bristol City College)

GV II
Orphanage. 1868, 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 \vith end cross-wings and 2-storey 8-bay outer wings. 12-pane sashes in plain stone architraves. At rear, single-storey workshop ranges 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: Davy House was the fourth of five large barrack-type orphanage buildings to be built by the Prussian-born p~tor and philanthropist George Muller. The orphanage was built entirely from voluntary contributions.
SOURCE: Pevsner, N; Buildings ofEngland;Bristol, p. 457.

Listing NGR: ST5954975369

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656685

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