48 High Street
48 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217481
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 48 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 48 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217481
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Nov-2022
- List Entry Name:
- 48 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 48 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 01044 90479
Summary
Former house built in the early C16. Altered, divided, and re-fronted in the mid-C18. There are two C20 shop fronts.
Reasons for Designation
48 High Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reason:
Architectural interest:
* as a house with early-C16 origins that retains a significant proportion of its historic fabric including its roof trusses and C18 plasterwork.
Details
Formerly listed as 48 and 48a High Street.
Former house built in the early C16. Altered, divided, and re-fronted in the mid-C18. There are two C20 shop fronts.
MATERIALS: rendered with stone dressings; the right-hand return wall is of limestone rubble. The roof is covered in plain clay tiles.
PLAN: single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with an attic, and a four-window range. The C20 shop fronts have moulded brackets to their fascia in two sections originally of three lights each, with two doorways to the bays at the centre of the building and one to the right (north-east). The first-floor windows have keyed architraves to six-over-six-pane sashes. There is a deep C18 moulded cornice beneath a parapet. The rear has a wide two-storey central wing with a hipped roof below the ridge.
INTERIOR: (not inspected 2021) at ground-floor level there is an early-C16 two-light, four-centred stone window and a left-hand, four-centred door with a rebate and iron hinges in the rear left-hand wall. The RCHME survey (1970) reports a C16 roof of seven bays with trusses comprising cambered tie beams and collars, and to a first-floor room an C18 plaster ceiling divided into squares by moulded ribs. Other features of note include panelling, fireplaces, the staircase, and doors.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, 'An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset', Vol 2 (1970), p223
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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