Westover is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Villa.
Westover
- WRENN ID
- old-hearth-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Westover, 4, Portarlington Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 076 910
- Coordinates
- 50.71858, -1.89243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westover is a large and well-detailed villa built around 1900, showcasing a mixture of Voysey and neo-Georgian architectural styles. The ground floor is constructed of brick and features Georgian-shaped windows with segment-headed arches and scarlet voussoirs. It has a projecting porch and cloakrooms with alternating brick and stucco quoins, along with a flat parapet that rises at the corners, adorned with a pierced heart motif. The arched doorway is topped with a prominent white semi-circular hood, which is roofed in lead and supported by richly carved console brackets featuring foliage designs.
The upper floors are roughcast and include a vast central staircase window made of unchamfered stone grid with six mullions and two transoms. Above this window is a gable that features an attic window strip with six lights in a moulded frame. The villa also has tall roughcast chimneys in a Voysey style. There are three small gables on the east side and one large gable on the west. The garden-facing (south) side has three symmetrically placed gables, each with 4-light second-floor windows that are segmentally pedimented. These gables are connected by white balustrading in the Voysey style. An off-centre ogee-roofed lead cupola adds to the design.
The villa features a two-storey canted bay alongside a single-storey canted bay with a balustraded balcony. Additionally, there are two well-crafted spoutheads. The entrance is marked by gatepiers made of alternating brick and stone, with original timber gates.
Local climate
Westover receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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