Listed Building: THE TOWN CELLAR (412572)

POOLE SZ0090SE PARADISE STREET 958-1/17/135 (North side) 14/06/54 The Town Cellar GV I Formerly known as: The Woolhouse PARADISE STREET. Warehouse, public house, now museum. C15, cut in half c1788 by creation of Thames Street, altered 1988. Coursed stone rubble, dressings, English bond brickwork to W end, and a tiled roof. Rectangular parallel open plan. Single storey; 6-bay range. Articulated by stepped buttresses with a brick left-hand gable end; left-hand depressed 2-centre archway with double C20 doors and chamfered flush surrounds, third bay has paired cinquefoil-arched narrow lights, right-hand bay has 2-centre-arched doorway with chamfered surround, which has a moulded corbel beneath the eaves for a now-lost arch. At the right-hand end is a stepped corbel of 3 courses. Rear has paired cinquefoil-headed lights and buttresses. INTERIOR: 6 bays survive of late medieval 10-bay braced collar beam roof with 2 registers of purlins and wind braces, and ashlar posts. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the Woolhouse used in connection with the Quay, the Kinges Halle (qv), White Hart Inn and Ship Inn. Developed after Poole was made a Staple port by Henry VI in 1433. The E end was cut off by the opening in 1788 of Thames Street, before which the doorway was a central one; the traces of the other end are in No.1 Thames Street (qv). Although truncated, this is a very rare and historically important surviving example of a medieval warehouse. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 204; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 321; Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 33). Listing NGR: SZ0086190313

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