Listed Building: MERLEY COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT GATEWAY AND WALLS (412442)

POOLE SZ0398 CANFORD MAGNA, Canford Magna 958-1/9/231 (West side) 30/06/80 Merley Court and attached front gateway and walls (Formerly Listed as: MAGNA ROAD (West side) Vicarage, approximately 100 yds south of "The Brook") (Formerly Listed as: MAGNA ROAD (West side) Archway and flank walls to the Vicarage) GV II House. Late C18, remodelled late C19. Rendered brick with brick details and stone dressings, English garden wall bond front wall, brick ridge and left-hand gable stacks and tiled roof, hipped to the right. Single-depth 3-room plan with left-hand extension. 2 storeys and attic; 3:1-window range. Brick eaves cornice, entrance has side lights and fanlight, and is connected to the gateway by a conservatory; windows with C19 labels and quoins to recessed sashes, a right-hand ground-floor tripartite window has 6/6-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes, 3/6-pane first-floor sashes, the extension has a label to a segmental-arched ground-floor 3/6-pane sash, and plain surround to a first-floor 3/6-pane sash. 3 hipped dormers have 3/3-pane sashes and decorative ridge tiles. The extension has a 2-window left-hand return. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a good late C18 brick front gateway has a pair of pilasters to a dentil cornice, matching dentil coping, and central raised section with a further coping, and a rubbed brick flat arch to a C19 six-panel door. The wall is ramped down each side from the cornice level with a dentilled moulded coping, and extends approx 20m N and S. It connects to the front entrance by a covered way. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 356). Listing NGR: SZ0319198208

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