151 High Street and attached front railings
151 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217490
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 151 High Street and attached front railings
- Statutory Address:
- 151 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217490
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Nov-2022
- List Entry Name:
- 151 High Street and attached front railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 151 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AS
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:
- 151 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AS
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 01299 90765
Summary
House, dating from around 1800, now a bank. Alterations carried out in mid-C20 and early C21.
Reasons for Designation
151 High Street and its attached railings, an early-C19 dwelling which has been altered to a commercial premises, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* it dates 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 which survives well.
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
Ivy House, as it was formerly known, was probably built around 1800. From 1818 it was occupied by George Penney and his family. He became the first Liberal Mayor of Poole in 1840. Between the 1920s and 1950s the house was occupied by a succession of different surgeons (Poole High Street Project, see Sources). By 1955 it had become a bank.
Details
House, dating from around 1800, now a bank. Alterations carried out in mid-C20 and early C21.
MATERIALS: Flemish bond brickwork with gauged dressings and vitreous headers to the rear and sides, brick lateral chimney stacks with a left-hand divided flue, and a hipped Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: to the centre is a tall, two-window range of three storeys and a basement. It has broad eaves to the hipped roof, and gauged brick flat arches over six-over-six-pane sash windows to the first floor, whilst the upper floor has three-over-six-pane sashes. On the ground floor are sash windows with glazing bars and radial heads set in recessed semi-circular arches with impost bands, linked to a similarly fenestrated three-window range in the single-storey wing to the right. This wing is set beneath a recessed two-window range of six-over-six pane sash windows, with gauged arches above them, and a slate roof. The single- storey bay to the left has steps up to a mid-C20, left-hand doorway, in which is a six-panel door with raised panels, a bracketed canopy and a rectangular overlight. The left-hand return to Lagland Street has gauged brick flat arches over two horned sash windows, with an eight-over-eight-pane sash to the right and ten-over-ten sash to the left. To the rear is a parallel wing with a hipped roof and similar fenestration.
INTERIOR: (not inspected 2021) it has been altered.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: there are attached wrought-iron railings to the front.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412505
- 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
The Ivy House, Poole High Street Project, accessed 16 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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