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Latitude: 50.7614 / 50°45'41"N
Longitude: -1.9841 / 1°59'2"W
OS Eastings: 401219
OS Northings: 95760
OS Grid: SZ012957
Mapcode National: GBR XQV.26
Mapcode Global: FRA 67Q2.JVJ
Plus Code: 9C2WQ268+H9
Entry Name: Yaffle House and Attached Screen Wall
Listing Date: 28 November 1988
Last Amended: 13 September 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1275360
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412635
ID on this website: 101275360
Location: Broadstone, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH18
County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Poole
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Broadstone St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
POOLE
SZ09NW WATER TOWER ROAD, Broadstone
958-1/2/214 (South side (off))
28/11/88 No.21
Yaffle House and attached screen
wall
(Formerly Listed as:
WATER TOWER ROAD, Broadstone
(South side (off))
Yaffle Hill and attached screen wall)
II
House. 1930. By E Maufe. For C Carter, director of the Poole
Potteries. White painted concrete with unpainted stepped
dressings, 2 large axial stacks and blue pantile hipped roof.
Double-depth half butterfly plan.
2 storeys; 4:3:4-window entrance range. Angled wings to the
garden front, and reverse wings to the N entrance front, with
single-storey outer service and garage blocks, and deep
overhanging eaves. The doorway, beneath a balcony with moulded
coping and ceramic relief of a yaffle, has a black faience
architrave with date and initials of architect and client, an
opaque glass door with scrolled iron grille, with a tall stair
window to the right.
Service wing to left, garage to right, have outer doorways
with flat canopies. Garden front has 2:1:2 windows including a
central ground-floor canted bay, the ground floor is set
forward to form outer first-floor balconies; round-arched
ground-floor windows, first-floor cill band, continued to form
the balcony coping, and accessed from first-floor French
windows in the returns. Metal-framed windows with cills. Dated
and initialled hoppers.
INTERIOR: complete contemporary interior with fireplaces,
doors, mirrors, mosaics, travertine skirtings, a polygonal
central dining room and a travertine stair.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached screen wall has 3 openings. An
interesting development of earlier C20 Arts and Crafts forms,
by a noteworthy architect of the period who was more commonly
associated with church architecture.
(Gloag J: The Architect and Building News: London: 1932-:
33-44).
Listing NGR: SZ0121995760
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