Building record MDO28260 - 47 and 49 High Street, Poole

Houses with rendered front walls and roofs covered with stone slates at the rear and with verges of the same material at the front, were built in the 17th century but much altered in the 18th century and later. The original walls were of rubble. Number 49 retains a moulded ceiling beam and a staircase with turned balusters of the late 17th century. The 18th century front elevations are each of four bays with shops in the lower storey. Demolished before 1970

Houses with rendered front walls and roofs covered with stone slates at the rear and with verges of the same material at the front, were built in the 17th century but much altered in the 18th century and later. The original walls were of rubble. Number 49 retains a moulded ceiling beam and a staircase with turned balusters of the late 17th century. The 18th century front elevations are each of four bays with shops in the lower storey.
Demolished before 1970 (1)

Excavations by Poole Museum on the High Street frontage in 1975 did not record any traces of this building. (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, 224 (Monograph). SDO149.

<2> Horsey, I P, ed K Jarvis, 1992, Excavations in Poole 1973-1983, 14 (Monograph). SWX3766.

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