Hill Close

SZ 0382 STUDLAND SWANAGE ROAD (North Side)

8/89 Hill Close 2-11-82

• II

Detached house. Built 1896, Architect C F Voysey, for Alfred Sutro. Later flat-roofed extensions on south - not by Voysey. These extended c1984 in matching style and given pitched roofs - architects Manning. Clamp and Partners, Roughcast walls with rough ashlar dressings. Hipped stone slate roof. Rough- cast stacks with tapered tops. Irregular plan. One storey and attics. elevation has centre projecting bay with lead flat roof. Glazed metal door with lead lights. Right of this a 3-light stone mullioned window and a single- light window, all with lead lights. On first floor a similar 4-light window. Left of the bay, on ground floor, 2 similar windows, of 3 and 4-lights. Small 2-light window under eaves. Flat-roofed dormer with 3-light window. Lean-to extension on left, with similar 3-light window. Right of the bay, on ground floor, a similar 4-light window and, in attic, a flat-roofed dormer with similar 2-light window. Small triangular dormer above the centre bay. Later extension, on right, in matching construction, but with artificial stone slate roofs. At left end of the house a large studio room with glazed end wall, glazing modified c1984. Interior retains some original features. Voysey's only known house in Dorset. See Newman and Pevsner. Buildings of England, Dorset.

Listing NGR: SZ0322082254