Listed Building record MDO27278 - Wimborne Lodge, Oakley Hill, Poole

A house built around the middle of the nineteenth century house in Tudor Revival style. The building has walls of yellow brick with stone dressings and a brick ridge stack, with a double Roman tiled roof.

House. Mid C19. Yellow brick with stone dressings and a brick ridge stack, with a Double Roman tiled roof. Tudor Revival style. 2-room plan with rear service wing. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Entrance front has a central projecting gable, similar end gables, all coped with kneelers and finials, cill course, string course stepped up over openings, and bracketed eaves cornice. Left-hand gabled porch at angle in the N re-entrant with 5-centre-arched doorway. 2- and 3-light mullion windows, with 4-centre-arched casements and hoodmoulds, and on the NE gable a splayed 4-light bay and first-floor window set forward beneath a weathered band. Monogram over NW ground-floor window. Rear outshut with gabled ground-floor window and 2-centre-arched window, with corner finials. INTERIOR not inspected but noted as having staircase rising between 2 chimney breasts. HISTORICAL NOTE: a former lodge to Canford Manor (qv), and part of a large group of similarly-styled estate buildings for the Canford Estate. Had a tiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles at time of former listing survey.

In September 2000, a watching brief by Bournemouth University revealed elements of the nineteenth century drainage scheme for the house including storm water drains, a brick culvert, a brick built water tank and a cess pit. (1)(2)

<1> Hewitt, I, 2000, Wimborne Lodge, Poole, Dorset. Archaeological Watching Brief. (Unpublished document). SWX8306.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2001, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2000, 174-5 (Serial). SDO11605.

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Jan 7 2020 4:12PM