Description

POOLE

SZ0090SE THAMES STREET
958-1/17/170 (South West side)
14/06/54 No.3
King Charles Public House (part)
(Formerly Listed as:
THAMES STREET
(West side)
No.3
King Charles Inn)

GV II

Formerly known as: New Inn THAMES STREET.
House, now public house. Late C16, converted to an inn c1770,
altered early C19, restored mid C20. Timber-framed, with close
studding to first floor and gables; partly rendered and
slate-hung, with a tarred plinth; brick lateral stacks and a
tiled roof. 2-room plan with central entry and brick rear
wing; extended.
2 storeys; 2-window range. A near symmetrical front has paired
gables with barge-boards, shallow-jettied first-floor, and a
large left-hand exterior stack. Central early C19 doorway has
pilasters to a wide pediment and 6-panel door with the top
panels glazed, between wide, shallow bays with 4- and 5-light
mullion and transom windows. Close-studded first floor has
rounded joist ends and jowled corner posts, and C16 4- and
5-light gabled oriels with cyma-curved bases. Plate-glass
casements. A central slate-hung gable is set back, with a
right-hand lateral stack.
INTERIOR has a right-hand room with moulded late C16 lateral
beam continuous with moulded cornice and wall plate, and
left-hand room with re-set C17 panelling as a dado and fire
surround, C19 match boarding above to C18 box cornice, and
horizontal sliding sash to the rear. A C20 stair leads in to
the first floor of the Kinges Halle (qv). Recorded by the
RCHME to contain moulded spandrels to foot of roof trusses and
original false hammer-beam trusses in 2 first-floor rooms, and
a detached kitchen for which no evidence was found. Fireplace
possibly part of early kitchen, incorporated into the house in
extensive C19 remodelling.
One of only a small number of timber-framed houses surviving
in the town, and the only one with a framed front to the
street.
(RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 234;
Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 24).

Listing NGR: SZ0083890316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26556979

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)