Description

POOLE

SZ0090NE WEST STREET
958-1/15/203 (West side)
14/06/54 No.32
Joliffe House and attached iron
railings, gates and stone piers

II

Formerly known as: No.32 Eagle House WEST STREET.
House, now offices. c1730, partly rebuilt and extended 1831-5.
Stucco over brick with stone dressings, gable stacks and
interlocking tile hipped roof. Early Georgian style.
Double-depth plan to main block with flanking blocks, the
projecting N wing to right making overall L-plan.
3 storeys and basement; 5-window range, 2-window N extension.
Double-fronted with rusticated quoins, cornice and parapet, an
early C19 Roman Doric portico with Greek key frieze and steps
up to a panelled door with panelled reveals and decorative
cast-iron panels. Keyed stone architraves to 6/6-pane and
second-floor 3/6-pane sashes. Rear has a cornice, central
round-arched doorway and stair windows above with imposts,
keyed rubbed brick heads and 6/6-pane sashes.
Early C19 N wing has a left-hand doorway with bracketed
canopy, panelled reveals and 6-panel door, and first-floor
6/6-pane and second-floor 3/3-pane sashes, with 1-window S
return with 8/8-pane sashes. W corner rebuilt early C19, with
W front a 3-window range of rubbed brick heads to 6/6-pane
sashes, and 2 second-floor S windows with architraves as the
front flanking a lateral stack.
INTERIOR reported to contain a good rear dogleg stair with
moulded ramped rail, column-on-vase balusters, the middle one
twisted, very fine newel with 4 fluted columns on an urn,
curtail and matching wainscot.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area spear-headed iron
railings and stone piers.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the N wing was a service wing, the S probably
for guest accommodation. One of the prominent merchants'
houses from Poole's early prosperity.
(RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 237;
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London:
1972-: 323).

Listing NGR: SZ0081390452

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512251

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