Listed Building: WAREHOUSE TO EAST OF THE TOWN CELLAR (412574)

POOLE SZ0090SE PARADISE STREET 958-1/17/138 (North side) 28/05/74 Warehouse to east of the Town Cellar (Formerly Listed as: PARADISE STREET Warehouse (adjoining the Town Cellar to the east)) GV II Warehouse, now museum. Early C19, extended and heightened in late C19. English bond brickwork, slate roof. Later building 5 storeys, encases E end of 3 and 4 storeys; 7-window range. Near symmetrical SE front angled at central bay, which has blind ground- and first-floor windows; openings with cambered heads and boarded shutters, hoist bays 3rd and 6th from the left, with ashlar pillows to strap hinges and double doors, the left-hand one rising to a gabled lucarne. Left-hand gable has 2 centrally-placed openings. Sarum Street front has 2:2:6-window range with segmental-arched openings, the latter including a hoist bay with gabled lucarne in the second bay from the left. INTERIOR has timber construction with posts to pillows and cross beams. Although altered, this occupies a very prominent position near The Quay, amongst a significant group of historic buildings. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 233). Listing NGR: SZ0088490322

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Mar 31 2011 3:46AM