YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL

YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL, 21, WATER TOWER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275360
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL
Statutory Address:: YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL, 21, WATER TOWER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275360
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL, 21, WATER TOWER ROAD

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:: YAFFLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALL, 21, WATER TOWER ROAD

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 01219 95760

Details

POOLE

SZ09NW WATER TOWER ROAD, Broadstone 958-1/2/214 (South side (off)) 28/11/88 No.21 Yaffle House and attached screen wall (Formerly Listed as: WATER TOWER ROAD, Broadstone (South side (off)) Yaffle Hill and attached screen wall)

II

House. 1930. By E Maufe. For C Carter, director of the Poole Potteries. White painted concrete with unpainted stepped dressings, 2 large axial stacks and blue pantile hipped roof. Double-depth half butterfly plan. 2 storeys; 4:3:4-window entrance range. Angled wings to the garden front, and reverse wings to the N entrance front, with single-storey outer service and garage blocks, and deep overhanging eaves. The doorway, beneath a balcony with moulded coping and ceramic relief of a yaffle, has a black faience architrave with date and initials of architect and client, an opaque glass door with scrolled iron grille, with a tall stair window to the right. Service wing to left, garage to right, have outer doorways with flat canopies. Garden front has 2:1:2 windows including a central ground-floor canted bay, the ground floor is set forward to form outer first-floor balconies; round-arched ground-floor windows, first-floor cill band, continued to form the balcony coping, and accessed from first-floor French windows in the returns. Metal-framed windows with cills. Dated and initialled hoppers. INTERIOR: complete contemporary interior with fireplaces, doors, mirrors, mosaics, travertine skirtings, a polygonal central dining room and a travertine stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached screen wall has 3 openings. An interesting development of earlier C20 Arts and Crafts forms, by a noteworthy architect of the period who was more commonly associated with church architecture. (Gloag J: The Architect and Building News: London: 1932-: 33-44).

Listing NGR: SZ0121995760

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Legacy System number:: 412635
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'The Architect and Building News' in The Architect and Building News, (1932), 33-44

Legal

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