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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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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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:: Non Civil Parish
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

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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.