90 and 92 High Street
90 and 92 High Street, Poole, BH15 1DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217487
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 90 and 92 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 90 and 92 High Street, Poole, BH15 1DB
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- Date:
- 2002-09-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/08753/27
- Rights:
- © Mr Ron Holmes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217487
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Nov-2022
- List Entry Name:
- 90 and 92 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 90 and 92 High Street, Poole, BH15 1DB
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:
- 90 and 92 High Street, Poole, BH15 1DB
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 01161 90612
Summary
Former house or pair of houses. Built in the mid-C18, altered to shop premises and extended in the C19; further alterations and extensions in the C20 and C21.
Reasons for Designation
90 and 92 High Street, Poole, a mid-C18 dwelling which was altered to commercial premises in the C19, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* the building retains its external envelope and character as an urban dwelling of the mid-C18;
* despite the insertion of shop fronts in the C19, it retains a well-proportioned façade.
Historic interest:
* it is one of group of listed buildings in High Street which together demonstrate the architectural development and diversity of the town.
History
90 and 92 High Street was built in the mid-C18 as perhaps one or two houses (RCHME, see Sources). It housed a draper’s shop and a chemist throughout the 1800s (Poole High Street Project, see Sources).
Details
Former house or pair of houses. Built in the mid-C18, altered to shop premises and extended in the C19; further alterations and extensions in the C20 and C21.
MATERIALS: it is constructed of red brick laid in header bond; front elevation of 92 High Street is painted; with dressings of stone and brick, under tiled roofs with a brick stack.
PLAN: it has a double-depth plan, with rear ranges of various dates.
EXTERIOR: the building is three storeys and basements, with rear ranges of one, two and three storeys. The front elevation is five bays, with stone quoins and a dentilled cornice above the ground floor, and a dentilled block cornice below the eaves that rises to an open pediment over a central window at second-floor level. On the ground floor are a pair of late-C20 shop fronts which extend the full width of the building. The first-floor openings have gauged brick flat arches and triple keystones. The three left-hand bays have multi-paned, horned sashes and those to bays four and five (92 High Street) have no glazing bars. The second floor openings are similar, with flat arches of gauged bricks and triple keystones, and imposts to the semi-circular headed central window within the pediment. To the left of the central window are two three-over-three sashes and to the right are two plate-glass windows that have been enlarged.
INTERIOR: the ground floor has been altered to form two shops.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412496
- 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 16 September 2021 from https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol2/pp189-240
Now and Then – Central High Street, Poole High Street Project, accessed 6 September 2022 from https://poolehighstreet.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/the-ivy-house/
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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