Yaffle House And Attached Screen Wall

Yaffle House is a house built in 1930 by architect E Maufe for C Carter, who was the director of the Poole Potteries. The building features white painted concrete with unpainted stepped dressings, two large axial stacks, and a blue pantile hipped roof. It has a double-depth half butterfly plan and is two storeys high, with a façade that includes a 4:3:4-window entrance range. The garden front has angled wings, while the north entrance front has reverse wings, along with single-storey outer service and garage blocks, and deep overhanging eaves.

The main entrance features a doorway beneath a balcony with moulded coping and a ceramic relief of a yaffle. It has a black faience architrave that includes the date and initials of the architect and client, an opaque glass door with a scrolled iron grille, and a tall stair window to the right. The service wing is to the left and the garage is to the right, both having outer doorways with flat canopies. The garden front includes two sets of windows, a central ground-floor canted bay, and the ground floor is set forward to create outer first-floor balconies. Round-arched ground-floor windows are present, along with a first-floor cill band that continues to form the balcony coping, accessed by first-floor French windows in the returns. The windows are metal-framed with cills, and there are dated and initialled hoppers.

Inside, the house retains a complete contemporary interior featuring fireplaces, doors, mirrors, mosaics, travertine skirtings, a polygonal central dining room, and a travertine stair. The attached screen wall has three openings. Yaffle House represents an interesting development of earlier 20th-century Arts and Crafts forms and is designed by a notable architect who is more commonly associated with church architecture.