Building record MDO28391 - 20 and 22 West Street, Poole

Houses with the front wall rendered in stucco with a verge of stone slates to the roof, were built in the late 17th or early 18th century but considerably remodelled in the late 18th century and later. Number 20 retains an exposedt chamfered ceiling beam in the front ground floor room and a moulded plank and muntin partition on the floor above. At the back of number 20 a two storey wing of better quality than the rest of the house was added in the mid 18th century; the west wall is in header bond brickwork. In the ground floor room is a large semi-circular cupboard with shaped shelves and a shaped apron; flanking fluted pilasters support a semi-circular moulded architrave and key block. Demolished before 1970

Houses with the front wall rendered in stucco with a verge of stone slates to the roof, were built in the late 17th or early 18th century but considerably remodelled in the late 18th century and later. Number 20 retains an exposedt chamfered ceiling beam in the front ground floor room and a moulded plank and muntin partition on the floor above. At the back of number 20 a two storey wing of better quality than the rest of the house was added in the mid 18th century; the west wall is in header bond brickwork. In the ground floor room is a large semi-circular cupboard with shaped shelves and a shaped apron; flanking fluted pilasters support a semi-circular moulded architrave and key block.
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, 236 (Monograph). SDO149.

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