Latitude: 50.7144 / 50°42'51"N
Longitude: -1.9878 / 1°59'16"W
OS Eastings: 400957
OS Northings: 90531
OS Grid: SZ009905
Mapcode National: GBR XQ7.V8
Mapcode Global: FRA 67Q6.3DQ
Plus Code: 9C2WP276+QV
Entry Name: 20, Market Street
Listing Date: 14 June 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1275386
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412546
ID on this website: 101275386
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
Tagged with: Building
POOLE
SZ0090NE MARKET STREET 958-1/15/99 (North West side) 14/06/54 No.20
GV II*
House, now office. Mid C18. Header bond front and Flemish bond rear brickwork, with stone dressings, brick gable stacks and a tiled roof. Mid Georgian style. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range. Double-fronted with a second-floor band, modillion cornice, returned at the end, and parapet. Doorcase with pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and pediment, with panelled reveals and a 10-panel door; gauged brick flat arches with split keys to 6/6-pane ground- and first-floor and 3/3-pane second-floor sashes with exposed frames. Original outer downpipes and lead hoppers. Cambered heads to 4 basement openings. Parapeted rear has a 3-window range with a segmental-arched doorway with console brackets to a pediment canopy and half-glazed door, Venetian windows each side and to the stair above with architraves, 6/6-pane sashs, with thick glazing bars to the central one and plate-glass to the left-hand one, round-arched windows to first and second floors have architraves with imposts and 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: a flagged hall divided by a round arch on fluted pilasters, a fine central rear dogleg stair with alternate plain and twisted column-on-vase balusters and a carved, scrolled rail, possibly by the same craftsman responsible for Sir Peter Thompson's House (qv) and West End House (qv); egg and dart cornicing, original panelling and marble fireplaces on the first floor. Rear half-glazed doorways with intersecting glazing bars. Connected internally to No.18 (qv). A fine C18 town house with some good internal details, one of the finest of a series which mark Poole's greatest period of prosperity. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 230).
Listing NGR: SZ0095790531
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