Building record MDO28423 - The Castle, Castle Hill, Parkstone, Poole

House of two storeys and attics with walls of cob, rubble and brick, mostly rendered and slate covered roofs, is an early 19th century villa. It has seven round angle towers, one at each external angle, with battlemented parapets, all but two being of solid construction. The south entrance front has a blind wall arcade or four bays rising through two storeys with pointed arches and enclosing two heights of blind window recesses, all between the two towers; the porch, which occupies one bay, is segmental and has a battlemented parapet. The west front is symmetrical and has a central projecting wing with a two storey wall arcade of three unequal bays with four centred arched heads enclosing rectangular casement windows with late gothic glazing bars. Demolished before 1970

House of two storeys and attics with walls of cob, rubble and brick, mostly rendered and slate covered roofs, is an early 19th century villa. It has seven round angle towers, one at each external angle, with battlemented parapets, all but two being of solid construction. The south entrance front has a blind wall arcade or four bays rising through two storeys with pointed arches and enclosing two heights of blind window recesses, all between the two towers; the porch, which occupies one bay, is segmental and has a battlemented parapet. The west front is symmetrical and has a central projecting wing with a two storey wall arcade of three unequal bays with four centred arched heads enclosing rectangular casement windows with late gothic glazing bars.
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, 239 (Monograph). SDO149.

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May 16 2012 10:35AM