West End House and Attached Front Garden Railings and Gate
WEST END HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS AND GATE, 2, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217517
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- West End House and Attached Front Garden Railings and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- WEST END HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS AND GATE, 2, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217517
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- West End House and Attached Front Garden Railings and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST END HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS AND GATE, 2, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WEST END HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS AND GATE, 2, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00774 90438
Details
POOLE
SZ0090SE ST JAMES'S CLOSE 958-1/17/150 (West side) 14/06/54 No.2 West End House and attached front garden railings and gate (Formerly Listed as: ST JAMES'S CLOSE (West side) No.2 West End House) (Formerly Listed as: ST JAMES'S CLOSE (West side) Gates and railings at No.2)
GV II*
Formerly known as: West End House WEST STREET. House. Mid C18 incorporating slightly earlier fragments at rear. Flemish bond brickwork with stone dressings, fragments of early C17 stone and brick walling to rear; brick gable stacks and slate roof. Early Georgian style. L-shaped plan with right-hand rear extension. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. Double fronted with rusticated quoins, ground-floor cill band, cornice and parapet with balustrade sections with 3 pairs of good urns on the dies. Fine doorcase has vermiculated blocked Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and pediment, rectangular fanlight and 6-panel door. Keyed stone architraves with first-floor cill blocks to 6/6-pane sashes, and 3 hipped dormers. Left-hand return has a round-arched stair light. INTERIOR: reported to include an enriched plaster ceiling to right-hand ground-floor room, NE room has a marble fireplace, enriched pulvinated frieze, and cornice; right-hand lateral dogleg stair with curtail, turned balusters with moulded caps and alternate plain and twisted column-on-vase balusters, and scrolled rail and curtail; first-floor rooms have cornices and fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: good attached front garden spear-headed railings with orb finials, overthrow and 2-leaf gates. HISTORICAL NOTE: one of the houses built in the first period of Poole's C18 prosperity, and with its fine enclosed front garden, one of the finest examples of a local merchant's house of the period. The scrolled end to handrail is reminiscent of the work of the Bastards of Blandford, and similar to that at Sir Peter Thompson's House in Market Close (qv). Gates and railings listed on 28.5.74. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 236; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 236).
Listing NGR: SZ0077490438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 236
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 236
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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