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Latitude: 50.7165 / 50°42'59"N
Longitude: -1.983 / 1°58'58"W
OS Eastings: 401299
OS Northings: 90765
OS Grid: SZ012907
Mapcode National: GBR XR1.4P
Mapcode Global: FRA 67Q5.Z64
Plus Code: 9C2WP288+JR
Entry Name: 151 High Street and attached front railings
Listing Date: 28 November 1988
Last Amended: 11 November 2022
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1217490
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412505
ID on this website: 101217490
Location: Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH15
County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Poole
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Poole St James with St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Building
House, dating from around 1800, now a bank. Alterations carried out in mid-C20 and early C21.
House, dating from around 1800, now a bank. Alterations carried out in mid-C20 and early C21.
MATERIALS: Flemish bond brickwork with gauged dressings and vitreous headers to the rear and sides, brick lateral chimney stacks with a left-hand divided flue, and a hipped Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: to the centre is a tall, two-window range of three storeys and a basement. It has broad eaves to the hipped roof, and gauged brick flat arches over six-over-six-pane sash windows to the first floor, whilst the upper floor has three-over-six-pane sashes. On the ground floor are sash windows with glazing bars and radial heads set in recessed semi-circular arches with impost bands, linked to a similarly fenestrated three-window range in the single-storey wing to the right. This wing is set beneath a recessed two-window range of six-over-six pane sash windows, with gauged arches above them, and a slate roof. The single- storey bay to the left has steps up to a mid-C20, left-hand doorway, in which is a six-panel door with raised panels, a bracketed canopy and a rectangular overlight. The left-hand return to Lagland Street has gauged brick flat arches over two horned sash windows, with an eight-over-eight-pane sash to the right and ten-over-ten sash to the left. To the rear is a parallel wing with a hipped roof and similar fenestration.
INTERIOR: (not inspected 2021) it has been altered.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: there are attached wrought-iron railings to the front.
Ivy House, as it was formerly known, was probably built around 1800. From 1818 it was occupied by George Penney and his family. He became the first Liberal Mayor of Poole in 1840. Between the 1920s and 1950s the house was occupied by a succession of different surgeons (Poole High Street Project, see Sources). By 1955 it had become a bank.
151 High Street and its attached railings, an early-C19 dwelling which has been altered to a commercial premises, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* it dates from the early C19 where there is a presumption in favour of listing buildings which retain a significant proportion of their historic fabric;
* for its restrained and well-proportioned classical façade which survives well.
Historic interest:
* it is one of group of listed buildings in High Street which together demonstrate the architectural development and diversity of the town.
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