Description

WEYMOUTH

SY68SE RADIPOLE LANE, Radipole
873-1/2/500 (North side (off))
14/06/74 Corfe Hill House
(Formerly Listed as:
DORCHESTER ROAD, Radipole
Corfe Hill House)

II

Country house in own grounds. 1821. For Edward Balston. Yellow
brickwork or rendered, slate roofs.
PLAN: a substantial square principal range with large service
range to the W. The corps de logis has a square entrance lobby
opening to a fine open-well staircase, flanked by 2 rooms each
side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 windows; at first floor wide 12-pane
sashes, above deeper 12-pane to ground floor, with central
square flat-roofed portico on Portland stone Roman Doric
columns and 5 nosed steps, over a panelled door with
side-lights, to a flat elliptical arch containing a
semicircular fanlight. The Portland stone plinth rises to
ground-floor level; a mid band, moulded cornice with
blocking-course, and parapet. This range has a large central
stack in yellow brick.
The S front, to the left, is rendered, with 2 large 12-pane
sashes and a smaller central light at each floor, and a
projecting lean-to conservatory, and the N front has 12-paned
sashes, with an extra painted-in sash at the first floor. The
large service range is on 3 floors, with hipped roof to plain
eaves, 16-pane sashes at first and second floors, and 20-pane
to the ground floor. A low wall links to an outbuilding beyond
a service yard on the W side.
INTERIOR: formerly divided into several apartments, now in
single ownership and use; the ground floor only was inspected.
The entrance lobby has a moulded ceiling cornice and central
rosette, and opens to the staircase hall through glazed doors
with side panels and large elliptical fanlight corresponding
with the porch doorway. The stone-floored hall has a grand
stone stair with flush soffit, wrought-iron balustrade and
polished hardwood handrail, and moulded cornice. The panelled
doors are in reeded doorcases with paterae.
The principal reception rooms have moulded cornices, and the
marble fireplaces are imported. Original or repaired panelled
shutters remain to the ground-floor windows.
A very elegant house, in splendid cream brickwork, and
organised in the main building to bring all flues to the

central stack. The building occupies a commanding position on
a hill-top above the village.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 364).

Listing NGR: SY6645581712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561570

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