CORFE HILL HOUSE

CORFE HILL HOUSE, RADIPOLE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271637
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: CORFE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CORFE HILL HOUSE, RADIPOLE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271637
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: CORFE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CORFE HILL HOUSE, RADIPOLE LANE

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:: CORFE HILL HOUSE, RADIPOLE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 66455 81712

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY68SE RADIPOLE LANE, Radipole 873-1/2/500 (North side (off)) 14/06/74 Corfe Hill House (Formerly Listed as: DORCHESTER ROAD, Radipole Corfe Hill House)

II

Country house in own grounds. 1821. For Edward Balston. Yellow brickwork or rendered, slate roofs. PLAN: a substantial square principal range with large service range to the W. The corps de logis has a square entrance lobby opening to a fine open-well staircase, flanked by 2 rooms each side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 windows; at first floor wide 12-pane sashes, above deeper 12-pane to ground floor, with central square flat-roofed portico on Portland stone Roman Doric columns and 5 nosed steps, over a panelled door with side-lights, to a flat elliptical arch containing a semicircular fanlight. The Portland stone plinth rises to ground-floor level; a mid band, moulded cornice with blocking-course, and parapet. This range has a large central stack in yellow brick. The S front, to the left, is rendered, with 2 large 12-pane sashes and a smaller central light at each floor, and a projecting lean-to conservatory, and the N front has 12-paned sashes, with an extra painted-in sash at the first floor. The large service range is on 3 floors, with hipped roof to plain eaves, 16-pane sashes at first and second floors, and 20-pane to the ground floor. A low wall links to an outbuilding beyond a service yard on the W side. INTERIOR: formerly divided into several apartments, now in single ownership and use; the ground floor only was inspected. The entrance lobby has a moulded ceiling cornice and central rosette, and opens to the staircase hall through glazed doors with side panels and large elliptical fanlight corresponding with the porch doorway. The stone-floored hall has a grand stone stair with flush soffit, wrought-iron balustrade and polished hardwood handrail, and moulded cornice. The panelled doors are in reeded doorcases with paterae. The principal reception rooms have moulded cornices, and the marble fireplaces are imported. Original or repaired panelled shutters remain to the ground-floor windows. A very elegant house, in splendid cream brickwork, and organised in the main building to bring all flues to the

central stack. The building occupies a commanding position on a hill-top above the village. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 364).

Listing NGR: SY6645581712

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 467841
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 364

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.