94 High Street
94 High Street, Poole, BH15 1DB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217488
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 94 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 94 High Street, Poole, BH15 1DB
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- 2003-02-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/09538/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217488
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Nov-2022
- List Entry Name:
- 94 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 94 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:
- 94 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 01166 90622
Summary
Former house, early C19; converted to commercial premises with domestic accommodation above. Later alterations.
Reasons for Designation
94 High Street, Poole, a former early-C19 dwelling which was altered to a commercial premises around 1900, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* dating from the early C19, where there is a presumption in favour of listing buildings which retain a significant proportion of their historic fabric;
* for its restrained and well-proportioned classical 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
94 High Street was built as a house in the early C19 and was converted to a commercial premises around 1900 when it became the offices for Archibald Yeatmen, a solicitor and commissioner for oaths (Poole High Street Project, see Sources).
Details
Former house, early C19; converted to commercial premises with domestic accommodation above. Later alterations.
MATERIALS: the building is constructed of painted brick, with gauged brick dressings, rendered chimney stacks and a tiled roof.
PLAN: it has a double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: it is a three-storey building with a three-window range to the front elevation. To the left-hand side of the ground floor is a six-panel door and a radial fanlight above, set within a semi-circular headed doorcase that has panelled reveals and attached columns supporting an open pediment with dentilled cornice. The early-C20 shop front has pilasters with reveals, console brackets, fascia and an awning box. It has a central pair of modern doors flanked by large modern windows. The first-floor windows have gauged brick flat arches and six-over-six-pane sashes; the second floor has three-over-three-pane sash windows. There is a cornice above and a low parapet.
INTERIOR: it is understood to have a rear dogleg stair with column newels, stick balusters and curtail steps. On the first floor there is an early-C19 marble fire surround with corner roundels. The ground floor has been completely altered.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Now and Then – Central High Street, Poole High Street Project, accessed 6 September 2022 from https://poolehighstreet.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/now-and-then-central-high-street/
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
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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