Beech Hurst and Attached Rear Area Railings
BEECH HURST AND ATTACHED REAR AREA RAILINGS, 155, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1223864
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Beech Hurst and Attached Rear Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HURST AND ATTACHED REAR AREA RAILINGS, 155, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1223864
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Beech Hurst and Attached Rear Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HURST AND ATTACHED REAR AREA RAILINGS, 155, HIGH STREET
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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:
- BEECH HURST AND ATTACHED REAR AREA RAILINGS, 155, HIGH STREET
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 01331 90801
Details
POOLE
SZ0190NW HIGH STREET 958-1/16/63 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.155 Beech Hurst and attached rear area railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South East side) Beech Hurst)
GV II*
House, now offices. Dated 1798. For Samuel Rolles. Brick with ashlar dressings, ridge stacks and a hipped slate roof. Mid Georgian style. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and semi-basement; symmetrical 5-bay front with 3-bay central pedimented section. Double fronted with 3-bay pedimented centre set forward, a raised ground-floor with a plat band, moulded first-floor cill band, modillion cornice and parapet, the steep coped pediment containing a coat of arms beneath a helm and supported by palm branches and a motto scroll. Curved steps to a semicircular bowed porch with 4 Tuscan columns with Doric entablature blocks and cornice, over a segmental-arched doorway with a decorative fanlight and 6-panel door. Gauged brick round-arched ground-floor and flat-arched upper windows, those flanking the entrance in matching arched recesses, those over the door with architraves, the lower with a console cornice, to recessed 6/6-pane sashes, and 3/3-panes to the second floor. Rear has similar divisions and fenestration, and a central doorway with good fanlight and 6-panel door, blocked windows flanking the centre bay, and a dated panel inscribed RSA/1798. INTERIOR: a central stair well with the bottom flight removed, cantilevered upper landings, fine original marble and plaster fireplaces with carved and enriched panels, and decorated plasterwork to first and second floors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rear spear-headed iron railings and gates. With No.11 Thames Street (qv), one of the 2 largest Georgian houses in Poole, commanding a strong position on the High Street. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 226; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 325).
Listing NGR: SZ0133190801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 226
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 325
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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