117 High Street
117 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267105
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 117 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 117 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01977/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267105
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jan-2023
- List Entry Name:
- 117 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 117 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AN
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:
- 117 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AN
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 01223 90653
Summary
House with a ground-floor shop; early C19, now commercial premises with flat above. Additions were made in the later C19, and the shop front installed in the 1930s. The building was restored in 1994.
Reasons for Designation
117 High Street, an early-C19 house with a later shop front, is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as an early-C19 house which shows good evidence of its evolution, with the creation of a ground-floor shop unit;
* for the quality of its 1930s shop front, which also retains a tessellated threshold carrying the company name for Bright and Sons, Bakers.
History
Formerly the premises of J Bright and Son, Bakers.
Details
House with a ground-floor shop; early C19, now a commercial premises with flat above. Additions were made in the later C19, and the shop front installed in the 1930s. The building was restored in 1994.
MATERIALS: painted brick in Flemish bond with a concealed Welsh slate roof. There is a rendered end chimney stack to the right-hand side. The rear wing is built from Flemish bond brick with grey headers, subsequently extended in a pale and bluish brick in irregular Flemish bond.
PLAN: double-depth plan with a contemporary rear wing, further extended in two builds.
EXTERIOR: three storeys high and of one bay. The 1930s shop front has a recessed central doorway flanked by bowed windows on a polished, veined, black stone plinth. The door has a large glazed panel with glazing bars forming a central diamond. In front of the door is a tessellated pavement with the name of the former proprietors (Bright and Son) and the soffit of the recess is panelled with a raised central diamond. The overlights to the door and windows have narrow, green glass bands to the top and bottom, and the glazing bars between form a diamond pattern. The shop front has panelled pilasters with tripartite, pendant motifs towards the top and fixed iron supports to the shop awning. Above the awning box, the fascia has a raised and moulded wooden border rising in two breaks at the centre. The first-floor window is a horned sash, and the second floor has a twelve-pane, two-light casement. Both have gauged brick heads. There is a cornice below the flat-coped parapet.
The rear wing is a one-window range, with segmental-arched window openings including a glazing bar sash to the first floor. The later extension, which is wider, has camber arched brick window surrounds with three sashes with glazing bars to the first floor; the window to the centre has been inserted under a timber lintel, and a similar smaller window to the right on the second floor. A further C19 extension has been replaced in the mid- and late C20.
INTERIOR: reported to have retained some early-C19 features.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412502
- 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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