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Latitude: 51.4758 / 51°28'32"N
Longitude: -2.5838 / 2°35'1"W
OS Eastings: 359549
OS Northings: 175369
OS Grid: ST595753
Mapcode National: GBR CB9.KS
Mapcode Global: VH88N.55DG
Plus Code: 9C3VFCG8+8F
Entry Name: Davy House Muller Homes (Bristol City College)
Listing Date: 5 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375997
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469978
ID on this website: 101375997
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 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
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