Description

POOLE

SZ0090SE THAMES STREET 958-1/17/169 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.1 Kinges Halle

GV II*

Formerly known as: Wool House THAMES STREET. Also known as: The King Charles Public House (part) THAMES STREET. Warehouse, incorporated into house, now public house. C15, divided and altered late C18. C15 limestone rubble with C18 brickwork, gable stack and a tiled roof. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range to gable. E gable has a left-hand double doorway with lintel and C20 doors, and cambered heads to a right-hand doorway with C20 boarded doors, first-floor right-hand cross window, and left-hand mid C20 3-light mullion and transom window to the left. A small plate-glass left-hand attic light beneath a projecting lifting beam, and gable stack. Gabled W wall includes a blocked 2-light transom window with cinquefoil heads in a frame rebated for shutters; 2 blocked openings to S wall. INTERIOR: in W wall, set in round-arched embrasure, moulded stone mullion and transom cross window with cusped heads to upper lights. 3 roof trusses have braced, collared principal rafters on tie beams with V struts on collars; large-scantling rafters, set flat and with short supporting posts rising from chamfered wall plate; chamfered butt purlins; square-section ridge pieces. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the W end of the Town Cellar (qv), a substantial warehouse indicative of the town's prosperity in the C15. Separated when Thames Street was cut through to the Quay. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 204; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 323; Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 19).

Listing NGR: SZ0084090308

External Links

• Kinges Halle at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17533732

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