Monument record MWX4289 - Shipwright's Arms, Lower Hamworthy, Poole

The Shipwrights Arms, of two storeys with cellars and attics and the a verge of stone slates to the roof, was built in the early 18th century on an L shaped plan. The door ways have modern surrounds with pediments in an 18th century style; the windows have segmental heads. Now demolished.

A passage or ferry house on Hamworthy Quay marked on a c. 1790 map, serving the ferry across the channel between Poole and Hamworthy. (1)

By 1841 it is a public house known as the Shipwrigh't Arms as shown on an 1841 map of Poole. (2) It is also shown on the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map epochs 1-4. (3) (4) (5) (6)

The Shipwrights Arms, of two storeys with cellars and attics and the a verge of stone slates to the roof, was built in the early 18th century on an L shaped plan. The door ways have modern surrounds with pediments in an 18th century style; the windows have segmental heads. (7)

Demolished c. 1978.

<1> 1790, A rough sketch taken on a view made of the different Encroachments on the Lords Waste adjoining the Town of Poole, Dorset (Map). SDO12476.

<2> 1841, Plan of the Town and County of the Town of Poole (Map). SDO12477.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1934-38, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch four (Map). SDO11596.

<7> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 330 (Monograph). SDO149.

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Dec 2 2019 2:02PM