Listed Building record MDO27343 - Sir Peter Thompson House, 25 Market Close, Poole

House built in 1746-9, by John Bastard for Sir Peter Thompson, extended in early and late nineteenth century. Flemish bond brickwork with rubbed brick headers, with limestone ashlar dressings and central bay, left-hand exterior and right-hand ridge stacks, and hipped slate roof. The entrance has a fine enriched open pedimented canopy with coffered soffit with paterae, with scrolls inscribed CONSCRIBE and a helmet and motto over the doorway, and banded rustication to flanking windows; over the pediment is a cartouche with the Thompson arms on a corbel.

Sir Peter Thompson's House, formerly Poole House, 67 Market Street, Grade 1. Built 1746-9 for Sir Peter Thompson, a Hamburg merchant and native of Poole. The original house is of three storeys but there is a 1 1/2 storey extension to the south and modern additions to the rear. Built of brick with a hipped slate roof. Full Architectural description <2>. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Map 1:500, 1888 (Map). SWX1328.

(SZ 01059069) Poole House (NAT)

<2> 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.

<3> DOE (HRR), 30 June 1980, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Poole 1980, 34 (Scheduling record). SWX3744.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF087426 (Index). SDO14738.

SIR PETER THOMPSON'S HOUSE, 67 MARKET STREET, POOLE

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458289 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 29 2024 3:33PM