Description

POOLE

SZ0190NW HIGH STREET
958-1/16/63 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.155
Beech Hurst and attached rear area
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South East side)
Beech Hurst)

GV II*

House, now offices. Dated 1798. For Samuel Rolles. Brick with
ashlar dressings, ridge stacks and a hipped slate roof. Mid
Georgian style. Double-depth plan.
3 storeys and semi-basement; symmetrical 5-bay front with
3-bay central pedimented section. Double fronted with 3-bay
pedimented centre set forward, a raised ground-floor with a
plat band, moulded first-floor cill band, modillion cornice
and parapet, the steep coped pediment containing a coat of
arms beneath a helm and supported by palm branches and a motto
scroll.
Curved steps to a semicircular bowed porch with 4 Tuscan
columns with Doric entablature blocks and cornice, over a
segmental-arched doorway with a decorative fanlight and
6-panel door. Gauged brick round-arched ground-floor and
flat-arched upper windows, those flanking the entrance in
matching arched recesses, those over the door with
architraves, the lower with a console cornice, to recessed
6/6-pane sashes, and 3/3-panes to the second floor.
Rear has similar divisions and fenestration, and a central
doorway with good fanlight and 6-panel door, blocked windows
flanking the centre bay, and a dated panel inscribed RSA/1798.
INTERIOR: a central stair well with the bottom flight removed,
cantilevered upper landings, fine original marble and plaster
fireplaces with carved and enriched panels, and decorated
plasterwork to first and second floors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rear spear-headed iron railings
and gates.
With No.11 Thames Street (qv), one of the 2 largest Georgian
houses in Poole, commanding a strong position on the High
Street.
(RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 226;
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London:
1972-: 325).

Listing NGR: SZ0133190801

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533628

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living