Listed Building record MDO27332 - The Hovel, 4 Market Street, Poole

'(205) House, No. 4 (Plate 125), with a rendered front wall with low stone plinth was built in the early 18th century. It occupies what may have been a vacant space between Nos. 2 and 6/8 and is clearly built around the chimney breast of the latter (see plan p. 230) with the ground-floor room of which it was once connected by a doorway. The front doorway has an eared architrave and a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, the latter now replaced. The fireplace in the front room of the first floor has a surround of Delft tiles with biblical scenes, moulded architrave, plain frieze with shaped ends and a moulded and dentilled cornice.' {1}

A watching brief was carried out inside this house in 1996, which confirmed the house was inserted between two pre-existing buildings. Below the floor was a layer of garden soil over one metre deep and along the site frontage were the remains of an earlier wall of limestone and chalk blocks which was interpreted as a garden wall pre-dating the construction of the house. (2)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 229 (Monograph). SDO149.

<2> Watkins, D R, 1996, Archaeological Observations at: The Hovel, No.4 Market Street, Poole. (Unpublished document). SWX8311.

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