19, Blandford Road

This is a mid-19th century house, later used as an office, situated on Blandford Road in Hamworthy, Poole. The building is of double-depth plan and has a double-pile roof covered in Welsh slate, with gable stacks. It is three storeys high and originally had a three-window front. A ground-floor impost band, a second-floor band, and an eaves cornice run across the front, with the central bay projecting slightly. Steps lead to a round-arched doorway containing a six-panel door and fanlight, surrounded by panelled reveals and a reeded architrave with pilasters incorporating triglyphs to the capitals and cornice. Flanking the doorway are round-arched windows with archivolts and modern glazing. The first floor has six-over-six pane sash windows, with modern glazing in the centre. The second floor has three-over-six pane sashes flanking a central oculus with an architrave. A modern rear extension, not considered of special interest, provides three windows to each upper floor, with modern glazing, and is slightly offset to the left, with a small oculus at the right end. The interior features reeded architraves with roundels in the spandrels, moulded cornices, a hall arch, and a dogleg staircase with wave-moulded treads, stick balusters and a handrail with a spiral curtail on a columnar newel.