Building record MDO28335 - Garland's Almshouses, Hunger Hill, Market Street, Poole

Garland’s Almshouses, Hunger Hill, were directed by George Garland in about 1812 and given to the town in 1814. That building has a half H shaped plan with a small open courtyard to the northeast and contains twelve tenements on two floors. The walls are of brick, those facing the courtyard being in Flemish bond with glazed headers; the roofs are tiled. The recessed North East front centres upon an inscribed tablet with a circular window above; finding these are doorways (one now a window) with round heads which both give access to a central room, 11 feet square, and thence to a corresponding room over. All the tenements are approached through doorways and its stairhalls in the wings, the landings being lit by small circular windows to the court. For the rest, the windows have segmental heads. Demolished before 1970

Garland’s Almshouses, Hunger Hill, were directed by George Garland in about 1812 and given to the town in 1814. That building has a half H shaped plan with a small open courtyard to the northeast and contains twelve tenements on two floors. The walls are of brick, those facing the courtyard being in Flemish bond with glazed headers; the roofs are tiled. The recessed North East front centres upon an inscribed tablet with a circular window above; finding these are doorways (one now a window) with round heads which both give access to a central room, 11 feet square, and thence to a corresponding room over. All the tenements are approached through doorways and its stairhalls in the wings, the landings being lit by small circular windows to the court. For the rest, the windows have segmental heads.
Demolished before 1970

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 231 (Monograph). SDO149.

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May 2 2012 2:04AM