King Charles Public House (Part)
KING CHARLES PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 3, THAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266490
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- King Charles Public House (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- KING CHARLES PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 3, THAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266490
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- King Charles Public House (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING CHARLES PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 3, 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:
- KING CHARLES PUBLIC HOUSE (PART), 3, 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 00838 90316
Details
POOLE
SZ0090SE THAMES STREET 958-1/17/170 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.3 King Charles Public House (part) (Formerly Listed as: THAMES STREET (West side) No.3 King Charles Inn)
GV II
Formerly known as: New Inn THAMES STREET. House, now public house. Late C16, converted to an inn c1770, altered early C19, restored mid C20. Timber-framed, with close studding to first floor and gables; partly rendered and slate-hung, with a tarred plinth; brick lateral stacks and a tiled roof. 2-room plan with central entry and brick rear wing; extended. 2 storeys; 2-window range. A near symmetrical front has paired gables with barge-boards, shallow-jettied first-floor, and a large left-hand exterior stack. Central early C19 doorway has pilasters to a wide pediment and 6-panel door with the top panels glazed, between wide, shallow bays with 4- and 5-light mullion and transom windows. Close-studded first floor has rounded joist ends and jowled corner posts, and C16 4- and 5-light gabled oriels with cyma-curved bases. Plate-glass casements. A central slate-hung gable is set back, with a right-hand lateral stack. INTERIOR has a right-hand room with moulded late C16 lateral beam continuous with moulded cornice and wall plate, and left-hand room with re-set C17 panelling as a dado and fire surround, C19 match boarding above to C18 box cornice, and horizontal sliding sash to the rear. A C20 stair leads in to the first floor of the Kinges Halle (qv). Recorded by the RCHME to contain moulded spandrels to foot of roof trusses and original false hammer-beam trusses in 2 first-floor rooms, and a detached kitchen for which no evidence was found. Fireplace possibly part of early kitchen, incorporated into the house in extensive C19 remodelling. One of only a small number of timber-framed houses surviving in the town, and the only one with a framed front to the street. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 234; Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 24).
Listing NGR: SZ0083890316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412607
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 234
Hillier, J, A Portfolio of Old Poole, (1983), 24
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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