Hillside With Front Garden Railings

SY 3693 CHARMOUTH THE STREET, NORTH SIDE

8/17 Hillside with front 5.9.60 garden railings (formerly No 1, Hill side)

G.V. II

Detached villa, one of three. 1827, by Joseph Wilson. Stone walls, stuccoed, with a stucco plat-band. Low pyramidal slate roof with projecting modillion eaves. 4 brick stacks, 2 at left hand eaves, 2 at right hand eaves. Square on plan (double-depth), with rear extension. 2 storeys. 3 windows, square sashes with thin glazing bars. Ground floor with tall French windows with thin glazing bars, set in shallow elliptical-headed recesses. Front door at centre, wood and 6-panelled. Semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Doorway with a reeded pilaster surround with plain imposts and a dropped key over. Door frame itself has similar reeded motifs. C19 wooden trelliswork acts as framing to the French windows.

Iron railings to street, arrow-headed with urns. Gate posts with plain recessed panels and pyramidal tops. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 89 (7).

Listing NGR: SY3637293643