Building record MDO28384 - 47 West Street, Poole

House of two storeys with cellars and attics, was built in the mid 18th century. The front wall is in the Flemish bond brickwork with shaped headers and has a moulded timber cornice below the eaves. The front door way has a flat hood supported by shaped brackets inside, the windows have shutters with fielded panels and window seats; other original fittings which survive including two fireplaces with wide architraves and moulded shelves, a rectangular cupboard with shaped shelves and a dog gate of trellis pattern on the staircase. Demolished before 1970

House of two storeys with cellars and attics, was built in the mid 18th century. The front wall is in the Flemish bond brickwork with shaped headers and has a moulded timber cornice below the eaves. The front door way has a flat hood supported by shaped brackets inside, the windows have shutters with fielded panels and window seats; other original fittings which survive including two fireplaces with wide architraves and moulded shelves, a rectangular cupboard with shaped shelves and a dog gate of trellis pattern on the staircase.
Demolished before 1970 (1)

Part of the rear of this house was excavated in 1971 by Poole Museum, which revealed nineteenth century brick walls and earlier (eighteenth century?) stone footings, and a well. (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, 235 (Monograph). SDO149.

<2> Horsey, I P, ed K Jarvis, 1992, Excavations in Poole 1973-1983, 31-34 (Monograph). SWX3766.

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Aug 29 2024 3:37PM