24, ST JAMES'S CLOSE

24, ST JAMES'S CLOSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217519
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
24, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
Statutory Address:
24, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217519
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Sept-1995
List Entry Name:
24, ST JAMES'S CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:
24, ST JAMES'S 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
24, ST JAMES'S 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 00871 90440

Details

POOLE

SZ0090SE ST JAMES'S CLOSE 958-1/17/156 (North East side) 14/06/54 No.24 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (North West side) No.2) (Formerly Listed as: ST JAMES'S CLOSE (East side) No.24)

GV II

Includes: No.2 CHURCH STREET. Two houses, now one. Late C18-early C19. Brick with rendered plinth, brick gable stack and hipped tiled roof. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan. 3 storeys attic and basement; 4-window range. 2-storey left-hand house, 3-storey right-hand former side elevation of No.2 Church Street. Left-hand house has a right-hand doorway with pilasters to a cornice, 6-panel door and gauged brick flat arches over 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames. Right-hand section has a single ground-floor window, and segmental arches over 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames. Former No.2 to Church Street has ground and second floors rebuilt c1965; joinery from that date: gauged brick flat arches with 6/6-pane ground- and first-floor sashes, and 3/3-pane second-floor sashes. Hipped dormer to each side. Corner lead hopper and downpipe. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly No.2 faced Church Street as part of a unified terrace with Nos 4 & 6 (qv), with a shop window, now blocked and replaced by a pair of C19 windows. Now incorporated into No.24 St James's Close. (County of Dorset; South-East: London: 1952-: 219).

Listing NGR: SZ0087190440

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Legacy System number:
412591
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 219

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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