Description

POOLE

SY99SE LAKE DRIVE, Hamworthy
958-1/4/236 (South side)
21/12/94 No.75
The Boat House

II

Detached house. c1936. For Mr Cullen, a Lloyds' underwriter.
Reinforced concrete with steel beams, clad in whitewashed red
brick in Flemish bond. Flat tarred concrete roof and hipped
blue-glazed pantile roofs to porch and roof shelter. Rendered
brick internal stack and metal framed casement windows.
Rectangular plan round central internal light well.
2 storeys and roof terrace with shelter; 4-window range. Main
front faces garden and Poole Harbour to south and has canted
projecting single-storey loggia to centre with hipped pantile
roof and metal-framed French windows, flanked by 3-light metal
casement windows now replaced by plate glass. Part of 2-light
metal casement windows to first-floor centre above loggia and
similar 3-light windows either side. Windows have external
projecting blinds.
Roof terrace is bounded by parapet with pantiled verge, the
outermost broken by square brick piers carrying timber
pergolas over outer bays. On entrance side to north is hidden
by higher ground level.
Part-glazed front door to first floor right of centre
approached by open porch, 2 bays deep with hipped pantiled
roof on square brick piers over elliptical-arched concrete
bridge over ground floor area. One and 2-light windows with
concrete lintels and cills of varying heights.
2-bay roof shelter to centre of roof terrace with hipped
pantiled roof and 2 low 3-light metal casement windows.
Shelter is flanked by roof terrace parapets with pantiled
ranges and timber pergolas supported by 5 bays of timber posts
either side of shelter, and square brick piers outermost.
White-washed canvas screens to front of pergolas with
'porthole' openings to alternate bays. Side elevations have
casement and porthole windows. Roof terrace has conical oval
skylight to centre.
INTERIOR: house incorporates fittings of 2nd Class Drawing
Room of the transatlantic liner RMS Mauritania. Bedrooms are
known as Cabins 1-3 and are grouped round a galleried first
floor with a large oval opening to ground floor with maplewood
balustrade and columns round light-well, which has internal
decorative glass roof below skylight.
Front door opens into gallery with open-well stair down to
main living room on ground floor. This large room has
maplewood panelling in Louis XVI style with elliptical-arched
heads to main panels and to window openings and doors. Square
bevelled glass mirrors are set in panelling. These are
L-shaped banquettes with buttoned upholstery round sides of
room and to inglenook fireplace. Beamed ceiling has panelled
ornament evoking plasterwork of liner's original drawing room.
Cabins (bedrooms) have mahogany panelling. Original, nautical
style fittings to bathroom. Kitchen to west side of house was
formerly part of self-contained service flat where original
bell-board may still be seen.
The Boat House is, with Landfall (qv), the most complete
surviving Modern-style house of the inter-war period in the
Bournemouth area. The fittings from the Mauritania, on which
the first owner Mr Cullen is said to have often travelled,
give it a special interest. These elements have been re-used
with wit and style in a way which evokes their original
context.
(Metropolitan (Magazine): London: 1991-: 64-71).

Listing NGR: SY9843690478

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512211

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