Kinges Halle
KINGES HALLE, 1, THAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1275357
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Kinges Halle
- Statutory Address:
- KINGES HALLE, 1, THAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1275357
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Kinges Halle
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGES HALLE, 1, 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:
- KINGES HALLE, 1, 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 00840 90308
Details
POOLE
SZ0090SE THAMES STREET 958-1/17/169 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.1 Kinges Halle
GV II*
Formerly known as: Wool House THAMES STREET. Also known as: The King Charles Public House (part) THAMES STREET. Warehouse, incorporated into house, now public house. C15, divided and altered late C18. C15 limestone rubble with C18 brickwork, gable stack and a tiled roof. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range to gable. E gable has a left-hand double doorway with lintel and C20 doors, and cambered heads to a right-hand doorway with C20 boarded doors, first-floor right-hand cross window, and left-hand mid C20 3-light mullion and transom window to the left. A small plate-glass left-hand attic light beneath a projecting lifting beam, and gable stack. Gabled W wall includes a blocked 2-light transom window with cinquefoil heads in a frame rebated for shutters; 2 blocked openings to S wall. INTERIOR: in W wall, set in round-arched embrasure, moulded stone mullion and transom cross window with cusped heads to upper lights. 3 roof trusses have braced, collared principal rafters on tie beams with V struts on collars; large-scantling rafters, set flat and with short supporting posts rising from chamfered wall plate; chamfered butt purlins; square-section ridge pieces. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the W end of the Town Cellar (qv), a substantial warehouse indicative of the town's prosperity in the C15. Separated when Thames Street was cut through to the Quay. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 204; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 323; Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 19).
Listing NGR: SZ0084090308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412606
- 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), 323
Hillier, J, A Portfolio of Old Poole, (1983), 19
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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