The Poole Arms Public House
THE POOLE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, THE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275359
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Poole Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE POOLE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, THE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275359
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Poole Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POOLE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, THE QUAY
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:
- THE POOLE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, THE QUAY
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 01008 90297
Details
POOLE
SZ0190SW THE QUAY 958-1/18/194 (North side) 28/05/74 The Poole Arms Public House
GV II
Public house. Early C17, extended late C17-early C18, refaced mid C19. Brick with faience front, 3 front gable brick stacks, outer ones blank, and a tiled roof. Right-angle 2-room plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Green-glazed tile front has a coped gable with kneelers, and darker impost bands to each floor. Near central doorway has darker surround and pediment, and darker shallow segmental-arched heads with keys to 2/2-pane sashes. Central name panel in gable. Rear gable has a 4/8-pane sash in a flush frame and a ground-floor pent. INTERIOR: altered mid C20 interior; reported to contain a C17 fireplace in E wall with chamfered jambs and 4-centre-arched lintel. HISTORICAL NOTE: Poole had an important ceramic industry in the nineteenth century, and a number of public houses have decorative glazed fronts, of which this is the finest. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 233).
Listing NGR: SZ0100890297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 233
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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