73 High Street

73 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1217483
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1980
List Entry Name:: 73 High Street
Statutory Address:: 73 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1217483
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Nov-2022
List Entry Name:: 73 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 73 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AH

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:: 73 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AH

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 01113 90522

Summary

Reasons for Designation

73 High Street, previously part of a larger house, is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* for the retention of a significant proportion of historic fabric including its early-C16 collar and tie-beam roof trusses with associated wind braces, together with a stone fireplace and winder stair; * for the survival of early-C17 plasterwork.

Group value:

* with the attached Grade-II listed 75 High Street it historically formed a single, early-C16 house.

History

Built in the early C16 as a five-bay house. It later became the Bull’s Head Inn before being subdivided into Numbers 73 and 75 High Street. 73 High Street retains its early-C17 plaster ceiling (restored in about 1990) to the former great chamber on the first floor.

Details

Three bays of a formerly larger early-C16 house; the other part is 75 High Street (Grade II). Its front was remodelled in the mid-C19, and the shop front installed in the early C21. The rear outshut was added in the C20.

MATERIALS: it appears to be constructed from coursed, squared, limestone rubble which is rendered, under roofs covered in plain clay tiles. There is a brick gable-end chimney stack.

PLAN: single-depth plan with the former great chamber on the first floor, and rear outshut; originally part of a larger dwelling.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with an attic, and three bays wide. The current (2021) shop front replaced one of the mid-C20. To the first floor are three horned, plate-glass sash windows beneath cambered heads. Above is a moulded cornice and C20 parapet. The two hipped dormer windows have three-over-three sash windows. There are blocked former openings to the north-east wall.

INTERIOR: the building retains three bays of the original early C16, five-bay roof that continues over the adjacent 75 High Street (Grade II). The roof comprises straight collars and tie beams, and alternate curved wind braces. To the former, first-floor great chamber is an enriched early-C17 plaster ceiling with a geometrical pattern of moulded ribs, foliate bosses, roses, and formal sprays of fruit and foliage, as well as an arabesque frieze. There is a stone three-centre arched fireplace with a double cyma moulding, moulded stops, and a herringbone brick back. To the left is a winder stair with stick balusters.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 412492
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, 'An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset', Vol 2 (1970), p225

Legal

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