20, MARKET STREET
20, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1275386
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1275386
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, MARKET 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:
- 20, MARKET 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 00957 90531
Details
POOLE
SZ0090NE MARKET STREET 958-1/15/99 (North West side) 14/06/54 No.20
GV II*
House, now office. Mid C18. Header bond front and Flemish bond rear brickwork, with stone dressings, brick gable stacks and a tiled roof. Mid Georgian style. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range. Double-fronted with a second-floor band, modillion cornice, returned at the end, and parapet. Doorcase with pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and pediment, with panelled reveals and a 10-panel door; gauged brick flat arches with split keys to 6/6-pane ground- and first-floor and 3/3-pane second-floor sashes with exposed frames. Original outer downpipes and lead hoppers. Cambered heads to 4 basement openings. Parapeted rear has a 3-window range with a segmental-arched doorway with console brackets to a pediment canopy and half-glazed door, Venetian windows each side and to the stair above with architraves, 6/6-pane sashs, with thick glazing bars to the central one and plate-glass to the left-hand one, round-arched windows to first and second floors have architraves with imposts and 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: a flagged hall divided by a round arch on fluted pilasters, a fine central rear dogleg stair with alternate plain and twisted column-on-vase balusters and a carved, scrolled rail, possibly by the same craftsman responsible for Sir Peter Thompson's House (qv) and West End House (qv); egg and dart cornicing, original panelling and marble fireplaces on the first floor. Rear half-glazed doorways with intersecting glazing bars. Connected internally to No.18 (qv). A fine C18 town house with some good internal details, one of the finest of a series which mark Poole's greatest period of prosperity. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 230).
Listing NGR: SZ0095790531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 230
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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