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Latitude: 50.7155 / 50°42'55"N
Longitude: -1.984 / 1°59'2"W
OS Eastings: 401223
OS Northings: 90653
OS Grid: SZ012906
Mapcode National: GBR XQV.LN
Mapcode Global: FRA 67Q6.4VH
Plus Code: 9C2WP288+69
Entry Name: 117 High Street
Listing Date: 28 November 1988
Last Amended: 5 January 2023
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1267105
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412502
ID on this website: 101267105
Location: Old Town, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH15
County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Poole
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Poole St James with St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
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House with a ground-floor shop; early C19, now commercial premises with flat above. Additions were made in the later C19, and the shop front installed in the 1930s. The building was restored in 1994.
House with a ground-floor shop; early C19, now a commercial premises with flat above. Additions were made in the later C19, and the shop front installed in the 1930s. The building was restored in 1994.
MATERIALS: painted brick in Flemish bond with a concealed Welsh slate roof. There is a rendered end chimney stack to the right-hand side. The rear wing is built from Flemish bond brick with grey headers, subsequently extended in a pale and bluish brick in irregular Flemish bond.
PLAN: double-depth plan with a contemporary rear wing, further extended in two builds.
EXTERIOR: three storeys high and of one bay. The 1930s shop front has a recessed central doorway flanked by bowed windows on a polished, veined, black stone plinth. The door has a large glazed panel with glazing bars forming a central diamond. In front of the door is a tessellated pavement with the name of the former proprietors (Bright and Son) and the soffit of the recess is panelled with a raised central diamond. The overlights to the door and windows have narrow, green glass bands to the top and bottom, and the glazing bars between form a diamond pattern. The shop front has panelled pilasters with tripartite, pendant motifs towards the top and fixed iron supports to the shop awning. Above the awning box, the fascia has a raised and moulded wooden border rising in two breaks at the centre. The first-floor window is a horned sash, and the second floor has a twelve-pane, two-light casement. Both have gauged brick heads. There is a cornice below the flat-coped parapet.
The rear wing is a one-window range, with segmental-arched window openings including a glazing bar sash to the first floor. The later extension, which is wider, has camber arched brick window surrounds with three sashes with glazing bars to the first floor; the window to the centre has been inserted under a timber lintel, and a similar smaller window to the right on the second floor. A further C19 extension has been replaced in the mid- and late C20.
INTERIOR: reported to have retained some early-C19 features.
Formerly the premises of J Bright and Son, Bakers.
117 High Street, an early-C19 house with a later shop front, is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as an early-C19 house which shows good evidence of its evolution, with the creation of a ground-floor shop unit;
* for the quality of its 1930s shop front, which also retains a tessellated threshold carrying the company name for Bright and Sons, Bakers.
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