Building record MDO28418 - Planefield House, Creekmoor, Poole

Country house of two storeys and attics with brick walls rendered in stucco and a slate covered roof, was built shortly before 1795, when it was advertised in the Salisbury Journal (8 June, 1795) as a ‘neat new-built villa, with two parlours, kitchen etc …. and seven bedrooms’. The house faces south and has a central semi octagonal bay with a semi-circular porch to the lower storey supported by Roman Doric columns with debased entablature blocks and a flat roof. The eaves on this side of the house have a wide overhang. The windows here and in the return wall have stucco keystones. Her in the centre of the east and west sides are large semi-circular bays with one hung sash window to each floor. The principal entrance is on the east, north of the bay, and has double doors with a semi-circular fanlight and is flanked by a pair of attached fluted columns with fluted caps the debased entablature blocks with fluted friezes and a dentil cornice returned as a pediment. Demolished before 1970

Country house of two storeys and attics with brick walls rendered in stucco and a slate covered roof, was built shortly before 1795, when it was advertised in the Salisbury Journal (8 June, 1795) as a ‘neat new-built villa, with two parlours, kitchen etc …. and seven bedrooms’. The house faces south and has a central semi octagonal bay with a semi-circular porch to the lower storey supported by Roman Doric columns with debased entablature blocks and a flat roof. The eaves on this side of the house have a wide overhang. The windows here and in the return wall have stucco keystones. Her in the centre of the east and west sides are large semi-circular bays with one hung sash window to each floor. The principal entrance is on the east, north of the bay, and has double doors with a semi-circular fanlight and is flanked by a pair of attached fluted columns with fluted caps the debased entablature blocks with fluted friezes and a dentil cornice returned as a pediment.
Demolished before 1970

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 238 (Monograph). SDO149.

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May 16 2012 9:38AM