Description

POOLE

SZ0090SE ST JAMES'S CLOSE
958-1/17/150 (West side)
14/06/54 No.2
West End House and attached front
garden railings and gate
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JAMES'S CLOSE
(West side)
No.2
West End House)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JAMES'S CLOSE
(West side)
Gates and railings at No.2)

GV II*

Formerly known as: West End House WEST STREET.
House. Mid C18 incorporating slightly earlier fragments at
rear. Flemish bond brickwork with stone dressings, fragments
of early C17 stone and brick walling to rear; brick gable
stacks and slate roof. Early Georgian style. L-shaped plan
with right-hand rear extension.
2 storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. Double fronted
with rusticated quoins, ground-floor cill band, cornice and
parapet with balustrade sections with 3 pairs of good urns on
the dies. Fine doorcase has vermiculated blocked Ionic
pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and pediment, rectangular
fanlight and 6-panel door. Keyed stone architraves with
first-floor cill blocks to 6/6-pane sashes, and 3 hipped
dormers. Left-hand return has a round-arched stair light.
INTERIOR: reported to include an enriched plaster ceiling to
right-hand ground-floor room, NE room has a marble fireplace,
enriched pulvinated frieze, and cornice; right-hand lateral
dogleg stair with curtail, turned balusters with moulded caps
and alternate plain and twisted column-on-vase balusters, and
scrolled rail and curtail; first-floor rooms have cornices and
fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: good attached front garden spear-headed
railings with orb finials, overthrow and 2-leaf gates.
HISTORICAL NOTE: one of the houses built in the first period
of Poole's C18 prosperity, and with its fine enclosed front
garden, one of the finest examples of a local merchant's house
of the period. The scrolled end to handrail is reminiscent of
the work of the Bastards of Blandford, and similar to that at
Sir Peter Thompson's House in Market Close (qv).
Gates and railings listed on 28.5.74.
(RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 236;
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London:
1972-: 236).

Listing NGR: SZ0077490438

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533617

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