10 High Street

Poole, BH15 1BP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267345
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: 10 High Street
Statutory Address:: Poole, BH15 1BP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267345
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Apr-2023
List Entry Name:: 10 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: Poole, BH15 1BP

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Poole, BH15 1BP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 00928 90381

Summary

House, first constructed in C16, re-fronted, heightened and altered internally in the early C19, with later alterations and addition. It was restored in the late C20; now a commercial premises.

Reasons for Designation

10 High Street, Poole is listed for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* although remodelled in the early C19, the building is understood to retain some C16 fabric including its roof structure.

Historic interest:

* as part of the commercial development of Poole’s main street.

History

The building formerly had a Greek Revival-style doorway with pilasters to an entablature and pediment.

Details

House, first constructed in C16, re-fronted, heightened and altered internally in the early C19, with later alterations and addition. It was restored in the late C20; now a commercial premises.

MATERIALS: the front range is rendered; the south-west return is painted, coursed, squared limestone rubble and English bond brickwork; the rear is stuccoed. The roof to the front range is tiled and has brick stacks below the ridge to the rear.

PLAN: it has a double-depth front range, originally single depth, with a later parallel rear extension.

EXTERIOR: the building is two storeys with attics to the front range. The front elevation is a six-window range. The left-end bay has a carriageway which has lateral beams with three-inch chamfers, and a sash window above. Two rusticated pilaster strips flank the remaining five first-floor windows. The central entrance has a late-C20 doorcase of pilaster strips, fluted lintel and cornice and a C20 timber eight-panel door. To the left of the entrance is an early C19-style, bowed shop front with a cornice and glazing bars; to the right are two horned, six-over-six-pane sash windows. There are matching first-floor windows, and three late-C20 dormers.

INTERIOR: it is reported to have a six-bay, C16 roof with tie beams, cambered collars and queen posts, and an C18 fireplace. The central through passage is divided by an elliptical arch, leading to a top-lit stair hall containing an open winder, dogleg stair with a curtail, stick balusters and round-arched niches at the half landing.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 412476
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
RCHME, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 2, South East (1970), 221

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.