Listed Building: CORFE HILL HOUSE (467841)

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

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