Poole House
POOLE HOUSE, 13, THAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225294
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Poole House
- Statutory Address:
- POOLE HOUSE, 13, THAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225294
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Poole House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOLE HOUSE, 13, THAMES STREET
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:
- POOLE HOUSE, 13, THAMES 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 00803 90391
Details
POOLE
SZ0090SE THAMES STREET 958-1/17/177 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.13 Poole House
GV II
House. c1730, back rebuilt and altered mid C19, front wall rebuilt and restored 1965-6. Header bond brickwork to front and English bond to the sides, with stucco and stone dressings, brick gable stacks and a tiled roof. Early Georgian style. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-bay range. Double-fronted and articulated by banded pilaster strips; ground-floor cill band, modillion cornice and parapet with a central balustrade section and 4 fine urns. Doorway has fluted Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and modillion pediment, panelled reveals and a radiating fanlight over a 6-panel door. Eared and keyed stone architraves with first-floor cill blocks, round-arched central window with Gibbsian blocked architrave, to 6/6-pane sashes. 3 mid C20 hipped dormers. Left-hand return has single bay of matching windows. The roof raised and extended to the rear mid C19, the stacks marking the original ridge. INTERIOR: building altered in 1960s and converted to 2 units in 1989. None of the features recorded in RCHME have survived. HISTORICAL NOTE: probably built by the Weston family. One of the earliest houses built with the C18 prosperity from the Newfoundland trade. The emphasis on the middle bay is a characteristic of provincial Baroque, and the facade has strong similarities with No.2 St James's Close (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 323; RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 234).
Listing NGR: SZ0080390391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 234
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 323
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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