79 and 79A High Street
79 and 79A High Street, Poole, BH14 1AH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217485
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 79 and 79A High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 79 and 79A High Street, Poole, BH14 1AH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217485
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Nov-2022
- List Entry Name:
- 79 and 79A High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79 and 79A High Street, Poole, BH14 1AH
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:
- 79 and 79A High Street, Poole, BH14 1AH
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 01127 90540
Summary
House, now a commercial premises; early C18; front was remodelled in the mid-C20; further alterations, including partial rebuilding of rear additions, in the later C20.
Reasons for Designation
79 & 79A High Street, Poole, a former C18 building which has been altered to commercial premises, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* despite the degree of later intervention and losses, the building retains its external envelope and character as an urban dwelling of the C18.
Historic interest:
* it is one of group of listed buildings in High Street which together demonstrate the architectural development and diversity of the town;
* the building reflects Poole’s social and commercial development over time.
Details
House, now a commercial premises; early C18; front was remodelled in the mid-C20; further alterations, including partial rebuilding of rear additions, in the later C20.
MATERIALS: constructed mainly of brick, rendered to the front, and may possibly incorporate some timber framing (Inventory of Dorset; Poole History Online, see Sources). The roof is covered in plain tiles and there are brick gable-end chimney stacks and a brick stack at the rear.
PLAN: single-depth plan with rear additions.
EXTERIOR: the building has two storeys and attics and the additions are single storey. The principal (north) elevation is four bays with two shop fronts. 79 High Street has mid-C20 plate-glass windows, a lobby entrance with a mosaic floor bearing the name MORTONS, an awning and a modern fascia. It has a, probable early C20, timber panelled stallriser and flanking pilasters with reeded mouldings. The shop front to 79A is mid-C20. On the first floor each bay at first-floor level has a timber two-light window with leaded panes set within plain recesses, and above is a coved and moulded eaves cornice. There are two rooflights which replaced earlier dormer windows, and further rooflights on the rear slope.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412494
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Poole, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 2, South East (London, 1970), pp. 189-240. British History Online, accessed 17 September 2021 from https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol2/pp189-240
High Street, No 79, about 1990. Showing brick and timber construction. Poole History Online, accessed 8 September 2022 from http://www.poolehistory.org.uk/node/16548
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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