Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533754

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)