20 High Street

20 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BP

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Overview

House, now commercial premises. Built in the C16, remodelled in the early C19, altered in 2022. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217477
Date first listed:: 28-May-1974
List Entry Name:: 20 High Street
Statutory Address:: 20 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217477
Date first listed:: 28-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Nov-2022
List Entry Name:: 20 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 20 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BP

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 20 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 00959 90405

Summary

House, now commercial premises. Built in the C16, remodelled in the early C19, altered in 2022.

Reasons for Designation

20 High Street, Poole is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest: * although remodelled in the early C19, the building is understood to retain some C16 fabric including its roof structure;

Historic interest: * its historic use as an important grocers is a reminder of the varied commercial uses on High Street.

History

The building was included in the RCHME inventory of historical monuments in Dorset (see Sources) where it was described as superficially early C19 – at which date it was probably refronted and remodelled – but has its origins in the C16, some fabric from which date survives.

A historic photograph shows that in the late C19 or early C20 the building housed ‘Saunders Stores’; at that time the brickwork was unpainted, and the building had an elegant door and fanlight and a high quality shopfront with huge pendant lights on the ground floor.

A new timber shopfront was added to the building in 2022 as part of the Poole High Street Heritage Action Zone project.

Details

House, now commercial premises. Built in the C16, remodelled in the early C19, altered in 2022.

MATERIALS: brick frontage (painted and part-rendered), concrete-tile pitched roof, brick chimney stacks to east end. The rear wing is built of coursed stone with a slate roof.

PLAN: fat L-shaped plan comprising the front range to High Street, and a rear wing.

EXTERIOR: the front range is two storeys, with four window bays to the principal elevation. The left-hand doorway has a C20 door, and the timber shopfront dates from 2022. At first-floor level there are four horned plate-glass sash windows beneath a shallow corbelled parapet. The deep, rubble-stone wing to the rear has a half-hipped roof.

INTERIOR: reported by RCHME to include a C16 roof with cambered tie-beams and collars, with the potential for other C16 features to be buried in the remodelled fabric.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 412479
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory for the Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset: Volume II South-East Part 1, (1970), 223
Websites
Heritage Gateway: Dorset Historic Environment Record, accessed 19/08/2022 from https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1012&uid=MDO27415
Poole High Street Project, accessed 19/08/2022 from https://poolehighstreet.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/early-20th-century/

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.