Listed Building record MWX956 - The Rectory, Poole - Gollafre House

Mid Georgian rectory built in 1786, in header bond brickwork to front with stone and stucco dressings, banded gable stacks and a pantile roof. Attached brick wall with iron railings and stone coping, extending approx 20m, to front garden.

GOLLAFRE HOUSE, 22, ST JAMES' CLOSE, POOLE

Two storeys, red brick with a tiled roof, built in 1786 with a 19th century addition to the north-west. <2>

National Record of the Historic Environment, 458284 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1937 (Map). SWX1197.

(SZ 00869046) Rectory (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 208 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(27) THE RECTORY immediately N.E. of St. James's church, of two storeys with cellars and attics, with walls of brick laid to header bond at the front and a tiled roof, was built in 1786 (plan p. 216). The front is in five bays with a central doorway with round head and fanlight and surmounted by a thinly-moulded open pediment. Windows have segmental-arched brick heads with keystones. Original iron railings survive enclosing the front garden (Plate 63).’

<3> DOE (HRR), 30 June 1980, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Poole 1980, p63 (Scheduling record). SWX3744.

Record last edited

Aug 29 2024 3:38PM