Jolliffe House and Attached Iron Railings, Gates and Stone Piers
JOLLIFFE HOUSE AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, GATES AND STONE PIERS, 32, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217536
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Jolliffe House and Attached Iron Railings, Gates and Stone Piers
- Statutory Address:
- JOLLIFFE HOUSE AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, GATES AND STONE PIERS, 32, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217536
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Jolliffe House and Attached Iron Railings, Gates and Stone Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- JOLLIFFE HOUSE AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, GATES AND STONE PIERS, 32, WEST STREET
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.
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:
- JOLLIFFE HOUSE AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, GATES AND STONE PIERS, 32, WEST STREET
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 00826 90541
Details
POOLE
SZ0090NE WEST STREET 958-1/15/203 (West side) 14/06/54 No.32 Joliffe House and attached iron railings, gates and stone piers
II
Formerly known as: No.32 Eagle House WEST STREET. House, now offices. c1730, partly rebuilt and extended 1831-5. Stucco over brick with stone dressings, gable stacks and interlocking tile hipped roof. Early Georgian style. Double-depth plan to main block with flanking blocks, the projecting N wing to right making overall L-plan. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range, 2-window N extension. Double-fronted with rusticated quoins, cornice and parapet, an early C19 Roman Doric portico with Greek key frieze and steps up to a panelled door with panelled reveals and decorative cast-iron panels. Keyed stone architraves to 6/6-pane and second-floor 3/6-pane sashes. Rear has a cornice, central round-arched doorway and stair windows above with imposts, keyed rubbed brick heads and 6/6-pane sashes. Early C19 N wing has a left-hand doorway with bracketed canopy, panelled reveals and 6-panel door, and first-floor 6/6-pane and second-floor 3/3-pane sashes, with 1-window S return with 8/8-pane sashes. W corner rebuilt early C19, with W front a 3-window range of rubbed brick heads to 6/6-pane sashes, and 2 second-floor S windows with architraves as the front flanking a lateral stack. INTERIOR reported to contain a good rear dogleg stair with moulded ramped rail, column-on-vase balusters, the middle one twisted, very fine newel with 4 fluted columns on an urn, curtail and matching wainscot. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area spear-headed iron railings and stone piers. HISTORICAL NOTE: the N wing was a service wing, the S probably for guest accommodation. One of the prominent merchants' houses from Poole's early prosperity. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 237; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 323).
Listing NGR: SZ0081390452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 237
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 323
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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