Listed Building: THE HELMSMAN PUBLIC HOUSE (412473)

POOLE SZ0090SE HIGH STREET 958-1/17/29(West side) No.2 The Helmsman Public House GV II Shown on OS map as King's Arms Hotel. Public house. Early C19, altered late C19. Painted brick with slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. A corner site with left-hand 2-window curved end beneath a curved roof, and a half-hipped left-hand gable. Left-hand end doorway has an architrave, pediment and panelled door, and a vehicle doorway one bay from the right-hand end. Flat brick arches over 6/6-pane and 3/9-pane sashes, with blind first-floor windows in the 4th, 7th & 8th bays from the right; a partial ground-floor Venetian window in the curved end with a blocked fanlight, flanked by horned 3/6-pane sashes. Segmental arches over 2-light casement to right and horned 2/2-pane sash; late C19 paired round-arched ground-floor windows to the left with moulded archivolts, keys and stops to plate-glass sashes. The right-hand gable has a first-floor 8/12-pane sash. INTERIOR altered on the ground floor with mid C20 public house interior. Listed for group value and for its position where the High Street meets the Quay. Listing NGR: SZ0090390304

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Mar 31 2011 3:47AM