Listed Building: THE OLD RECTORY (412426)

POOLE SY99SE BLANDFORD ROAD, Hamworthy 958-1/4/235 (North side) 14/06/54 No.158 The Old Rectory II* Manor house, later rectory. c1650. For Carew family. Interior altered mid C19. Restored C20. Red brick in English bond on coursed squared limestone plinth, plain tile roofs and brick end stacks. Compact plan with central cross hall, staircase to rear of hall, a major room either side and lesser rooms to rear. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. Main front faces east and is articulated by an order of giant Ionic pilasters defining bays, with pedestals and full entablature. Central 2-storey porch with door and window to first floor flanked by pilasters. doorway has round-arched head, imposts and key block. Window has flat-arched head. Porch is flanked by half bays with narrow windows to ground and first floors either side with flat-arched heads. 2 outer bays have windows of uniform size with similar flat-arched heads. 3 attic gables above cornice with ogee curves to sides and pediments, that to centre segmental. One window to each gable with flat-arched heads. Wave-moulded brick coping to storm plinth, first-floor storey band and recent timber cross windows except to half bays which have timber transoms only. INTERIOR: stone-flagged hall separated from stair by C19 screen. C19 open-well stair with stop-chamfered newel posts, turned balusters and scrolled tread ends. Drawing room has stop-chamfered spine beam and stop chamfered joists. Mid C19 stone fireplace with Tudor-arched fireplace opening with carved spandrels, frieze of encaustic tiles and moulded cornice. A gentry house of national importance in the artisan mannerist style, very little altered externally. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 238; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London:1972-: 223; Barley M: Houses and History: LONDON: 1986-: 231). Listing NGR: SY9993390498

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