Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars

Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars, Sarum Street, Poole, BH15 1BW

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Overview

An early-C19 lock-up, since used as a fire engine house and latterly as a plant room. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224843
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars
Statutory Address:: Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars, Sarum Street, Poole, BH15 1BW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224843
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Nov-2022
List Entry Name:: Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars
Statutory Address 1:: Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars, Sarum Street, Poole, BH15 1BW

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: Former lock-up attached to north end of the Town Cellars, Sarum Street, Poole, BH15 1BW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 00864 90320

Summary

An early-C19 lock-up, since used as a fire engine house and latterly as a plant room.

History

Built as a lean-to lock-up against the Town Cellars (Grade I listed). Writing 18 years after it was built in 1820, John Sydenham stated it was referred to as ‘The Salisbury’, after the medieval gaol built by the Montagu Family, Earls of Salisbury, which the existing structure replaced. .

Details

Lock-up of 1820; used as a fire engine house in the late C19. Now a plant room and store for the adjoining Poole Museum.

MATERIALS: built from limestone ashlar with a slate roof.

PLAN: a single-room plan.

DESCRIPTION: single-storey, two-window range. The two small, barred windows and the studded door between them have chamfered surrounds. A keystone above the door dates the building to 1820. A later double door was inserted in the west end of the building when it was used as a fire engine house.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 412573
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sydenham, John, The History of the Town and County of Poole, (1839), 429
Websites
Poole Lock-up, Prison History, accessed 30/08/2022 from https://www.prisonhistory.org/lockup/poole-lock-up/
Other
RCHME: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 2, South east, 1970, 204.

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.