Harbour Office
HARBOUR OFFICE, THE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225363
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Harbour Office
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOUR OFFICE, THE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225363
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Harbour Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARBOUR OFFICE, THE QUAY
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:
- HARBOUR OFFICE, THE QUAY
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 00841 90300
Details
POOLE
SZ0090SE THE QUAY 958-1/17/189 (North side) 14/06/54 Harbour Office
GV II
Harbour office. 1822. Stucco with limestone dressings, slate roof. Mid Georgian style. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. A ground-floor stone-flagged open arcade of 4 Tuscan columns to an entablature and cornice carries the upper storey with a modillion cornice returning at the ends and parapet; left-hand doorway and blind, ground-floor windows with painted 8/8-pane sashes; first-floor 6/6-pane sashes, and a central sundial inscribed S.WESTON ESQ. MAYOR 1814. Right-hand return gable has a central doorway with pilasters and pediment, a 3-window range with a central sash, blind each side, and a stone plaque above with architrave containing a painted half figure inscribed BENHAMIN SKUTT, MAYOR/AN 1727/JN AUBREY FECIT. INTERIOR: a single first-floor room, restored mid C20. HISTORICAL NOTE: the original building was built 1727, and the plaque and sundial reused from it. The parapet was formerly raised to the centre with a wide panel. A notable and significant example of a harbour office in its original historic context, and built at the end of Poole's height of trading prosperity. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 204; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 320; Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-).
Listing NGR: SZ0084190300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412628
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 204
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 320
Hillier, J, A Portfolio of Old Poole, (1983)
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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