2, MARKET CLOSE
2, MARKET CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217495
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, MARKET CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, MARKET CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217495
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, MARKET CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, MARKET CLOSE
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:
- 2, MARKET CLOSE
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 01003 90624
Details
POOLE
SZ0190NW MARKET CLOSE 958-1/16/78 (West side) 14/06/54 No.2
GV II
Formerly known as: No.46 MARKET STREET. House, now office. Late C18-early C19. Brick with stucco and gauged brick dressings, gable stacks and slate roof. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. Ground- and first-floor cill bands and parapet; left-hand doorway with steps up to a timber portico with Doric columns supporting flat canopy, rectangular fanlight and 6-panel door with rectangular overlight; ground-floor semicircular-arched windows in matching recesses, 6/6-pane sashes and horned 3/3-pane basement sashes. Rear has a full-height S bow with tripartite windows, 6/6-pane central and flanking 4/4-pane sashes, lower on the second floor, N 6/6-pane sashes, and a central mid C19 half-glazed door with margin bars and a bracketed canopy. A panel is inscribed PT 1749. INTERIOR noted as having been completely altered. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 231).
Listing NGR: SZ0100390624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 231
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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