2, High Street
2, High Street, Poole, BH15 1BW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275412
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 2, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 2, High Street, Poole, BH15 1BW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275412
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 2, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, High Street, Poole, BH15 1BW
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:
- 2, High Street, Poole, BH15 1BW
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 00902 90304
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 June 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
958-1/17/29
POOLE
HIGH STREET (west side)
No 2
(Formerly listed as 2, THE SPOTTED COW PUBLIC HOUSE, previously listed as: HIGH STREET, 2 THE HELMSMAN PUBLIC HOUSE)
13-SEP-1995
GV II
Also Known As: KING'S ARMS HOTEL
A public house, dating from the early-C19, with some alterations in the late-C19.
MATERIALS: the building is constructed from painted brick, under a hipped roof covered in slate.
PLAN: the plan is single depth, on a corner plot, with a curved corner; the building is orientated roughly north-south.
EXTERIOR: the building has two storeys and an attic and consists of a seven-window range. It has a left-hand, two-window curved end beneath a curved roof, and a half-hipped right-hand gable. Left-hand end doorway has an architrave, pediment and panelled door, and a vehicle doorway one bay from the right-hand end. The first floor has flat brick arches over six-over-six-pane and three-over-nine-pane sashes, with blind first-floor windows in the fourth, seventh and eighth bays from the right; a partial ground-floor Venetian window in the curved end has a blocked fanlight, and is flanked by horned three-over-nine-pane sashes. To the right, the windows have segmental arches over a two-light casement and a horned two-over-two-pane sash; to the ground floor, there are late-C19, paired round-arched windows to the left with moulded archivolts, keys and stops to plate-glass sashes. The right-hand gable has a first-floor eight-over-twelve-pane sash.
INTERIOR: the interior has been altered on the ground-floor by the insertion of a mid-C20 public house interior.
HISTORY: The public house, sited prominently on a corner plot overlooking the waterfront, was constructed in the early-C19, and has remained in the same use since.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
2 High Street, an early-C19 public house is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: the building is a substantial public house, situated on a prominent corner plot, demonstrating some architectural pretension in its classical detailing
* Intactness: the exterior of the building is largely unaltered since the later C19
* Group value: the building forms part of a large group of listed buildings clustered together in the old town of Poole, built alongside the harbour to serve its working population
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412473
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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