Listed Building record MDO27405 - 75 High Street, Poole

A house built in the early sixteenth century, and later modified for use as a public house (The Bull's Head Inn), then offices. The building has walls of rendered, coursed, squared limestone rubble with brick gable chimney stack and tiled roof.

SZ 01129052: Nos 73-5 High St., Poole. An early 16th century house. Formerly the Bull's Head Inn, now converted to offices. Grade II*. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 225 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(136) OFFICES, formerly The Bull’s Head Inn, and adjacent house, Nos. 73, 75, with walls of rubble partly rebuilt in brick and rendered at the front, were built as a single structure in the early 16th century.

A stone window, of two rectangular lights with hollow-chamfered roll and casement-moulded jambs and head, remains in the rear wall of No. 75. Over the first-floor rooms of No. 73 is an enriched 17th-century plaster ceiling divided into a geometrical pattern with moulded ribs having foliate bosses at some of the intersections, roses and formal sprays of fruit and foliage in the panels and a frieze of arabesque ornament. The original roof survives and is of three bays to the N. and two and a half bays to the S.; the latter are subdivided by intermediate trusses. Roof trusses are plain with straight collars and tie beams, and had pairs of curved wind braces alternately on the E. and W. side in each bay.’

<2> DOE (HRR), 30 June 1980, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Poole 1980, 15 (Scheduling record). SWX3744.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888447 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 29 2024 3:34PM