Listed Building: NUMBERS 87 AND 89 INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS (412495)

POOLE SZ0190NW HIGH STREET 958-1/16/52(South East side) 14/06/54 Nos.87 AND 89 including front area railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (South East side) Nos.87 AND 89) GV II Formerly known as: Barfoot's House HIGH STREET. Town house, now restaurant and flats (No.87) and part of shop premises (No.89). Dated 1704, sub-divided and altered 1777, with C19 and C20 alterations, C20 extensions to rear and large late C19 extension to front of No.89 on part of original forecourt and covering 4 bays of original 7-bay elevation. Originally of red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers and stone dressings, now rendered to front; plain-tile hipped roof and brick gable stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and cellar; 7-window range. Only 3 bays to right of centre of front are visible from High Street including far right bay of 3-bay centre, which breaks forward slightly. Painted wood doorcase to this bay, probably of c1777. Panelled door in round-arched doorway with imposts, fluted key block and fanlight, flanked by fluted Roman Doric columns bearing open pediment. This part of front is rendered. 6/6-pane sashes with moulded stone surrounds. Rusticated quoins to right, quoins of even length to visible angle of 3-bay centre. First-floor storey band and moulded string course at second-floor level, scrolled console bracketed eaves cornice, and stone-coped parapet. Within the front extension to No.89 the ground- and first-floor front wall of house appears to have been removed, but second-floor front wall survives unrendered. Left end stack has swept up base with coping continued from parapet. Original rainwater head inscribed SW/1704. 2-storey former service building to left side behind C19 extension is probably mid C18 and is of red brick with hipped slate roof; sashes with flat-arched heads and rusticated quoins. INTERIOR: No.87 has an open-well staircase, probably re-located c1775 with mahogany ramped handrail with scrolled end, 3 column-on-vase balusters to a tread, column newels, carved tread ends, and panelled dado. Early C18 fireplaces, bolection-moulded panelling and doorcases on upper floors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: C19 wrought-iron railings and gates enclose the flagged front area. HISTORICAL NOTE: the earliest of an important group of C18 merchants' town houses in Poole, the result of the developing Newfoundland cod trade. No.89 listed 14.8.92. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 225). Listing NGR: SZ0116990558

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