Poole House
POOLE HOUSE, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237293
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Poole House
- Statutory Address:
- POOLE HOUSE, CASTLE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237293
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Poole House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOLE HOUSE, CASTLE 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, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Stowey
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 19116 39729
Details
ST13NE NETHER STOWEY CP CASTLE STREET (North side)
11/48 No 21 (Poole House) (formerly listed as Thomas Poole's House) 29.3.63
GV II
House. Early C18. Coursed and squared red sandstone rubble, moulded stone band at first floor level, moulded dentil eaves cornice, slate roof, coped verges, 3 large C20 brick stacks. Two storeys and attic, 7 bays; C19 4-pane sash windows with additional marginal glazing bars, sandstone voussoirs to openings with emphasised freestone keystones, those to ground floor reaching up to first floor band, those to first floor reaching up to eaves cornice. Door opening in third bay from left, bolection-moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice, C20 4-panelled door, top 2 panels glazed. Late C19 double shop front with fascia to right 3 bays of the ground floor; to its left a blocked window opening with an emphasised keystone. Bakehouse to rear with ovens; also the bookroom with a coved plaster cornice, reached by a flight of external stone steps. The home of Thomas Poole, tanner, through whose friendship Samuel Taylor Coleridge settled in the village 1797-1800, living at Coleridge Cottage (qv).
Listing NGR: ST1911639729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268897
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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