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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)

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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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