Listed Building: JOLLIFFE HOUSE AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, GATES AND STONE PIERS (412639)

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: SZ0082790547

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