Sir Peter Thompson House
SIR PETER THOMPSON HOUSE, 25, MARKET CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1224145
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sir Peter Thompson House
- Statutory Address:
- SIR PETER THOMPSON HOUSE, 25, MARKET CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1224145
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sir Peter Thompson House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIR PETER THOMPSON HOUSE, 25, 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:
- SIR PETER THOMPSON HOUSE, 25, 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 01048 90692
Details
POOLE
SZ0190NW MARKET CLOSE 958-1/16/81 (East side) 14/06/54 No.25 Sir Peter Thompson House
GV I
Formerly known as: No.67 MARKET STREET. House, now office. 1746-9, by John Bastard. For Sir Peter Thompson, extended early and late C19. Flemish bond brickwork with rubbed brick headers, with limestone ashlar dressings and central bay, left-hand exterior and right-hand ridge stacks, and hipped slate roof. H-plan with right-hand wing and rear extension. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range, with single storey 4-window range. Double-fronted with a slightly recessed ashlar central bay, modillion cornice and parapet with a central balustrade. The entrance has a fine enriched open pedimented canopy with coffered soffit with paterae, with scrolls inscribed CONSCRIBE and a helmet and motto over the doorway, and banded rustication to flanking windows; over the pediment is a cartouche with the Thompson arms on a corbel. Central first-floor Venetian window and second-floor lunette above a relief of a lion rampant, the Thompson crest. Outer windows have keyed rubbed brick heads in flush exposed frames, 6/6-pane first- and second-floor sashes, cambered second-floor 3/3-pane sashes with ashlar aprons. Right-hand early C19 range has a flat cornice and ramped parapet with 3 round-arched windows with 8/12-pane sashes and a single hipped dormer to a mansard roof, and gable stack. Left-hand return has 2 exterior stacks with 2 windows between. Rear has a central recess to a first-floor Venetian window and second-floor lunette windows lighting the central halls, with a SE late C19 four-window wing with keyed 2/2-pane plate-glass sashes, and a bracketed cornice and balustrade with urns. Late C20 conservatory across the centre and NE. INTERIOR includes fine panelled rooms with some original carved marble fireplaces, decorated rococo plaster ceilings, notably the front right-hand ground-floor and central first-floor rooms, the latter stretching from front to back, and a central right-hand stair with alternately twisted and plain column-on-vase balusters, fluted column newels, ramped, carved handrail, enriched brackets and scrolled curtail. HISTORICAL NOTE: a formal garden and canal formerly extended in front of the house. The stair was by the same craftsman as that of Nos 20 Market Street (qv) and West End House, St James's Close (qv). Sir Peter Thompson (1698-1770) was a Hamburg merchant and native of Poole, who lived in Bermondsey until 1763 when he retired to his house in Poole. The finest Georgian town house in Poole, the emphasis on the central bay being a Baroque device used by the Bastard brothers at Blandford Forum. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 229; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 324).
Listing NGR: SZ0104890692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 229
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 324
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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