4, MARKET CLOSE
4, MARKET CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275382
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 4, MARKET CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, MARKET CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275382
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 4, MARKET CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, MARKET CLOSE
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:
- 4, MARKET CLOSE
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 01010 90650
Details
POOLE
SZ0190NW MARKET CLOSE 958-1/16/79 (West side) 16/06/54 No.4
II
Formerly known as: No.56 MARKET STREET. Formerly known as: No.54 (part) MARKET STREET. House, now masonic lodge. Early C18 rear, late C18 front, late C19 entrance. Header bond brickwork front with stucco dressings and steep tiled roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Right-hand late C19 single-storey entrance bay set back with a cornice and balustrade, steps up to a keyed doorway with panelled door and flanking side lights. Main front has an English bond plinth, stucco cornice and parapet, the right-hand windows set slightly apart, with flat gauged brick arches over 6/6-pane sashes. Early C18 rear has an eaves cornice and steeply pitched roof. INTERIOR not inspected but noted as including the following features: ornately carved mahogany panelling in the dining room, reputed to be donated by Lord Wimborne from an estate in Spain; the front ground floor room contains a decorated terracotta chimney piece with Masonic symbols; the temple on the first floor is also panelled and contains ornate regalia and symbols. Former entrance in the right-hand ground-floor window. Part listed on 30.6.1980. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 231).
Listing NGR: SZ0101090650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412526
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 231
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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