73 High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1980. A Tudor House. 8 related planning applications.

73 High Street

WRENN ID
muffled-timber-grove
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 June 1980
Type
House
Period
Tudor
Address
73 High Street, BH15 1AH
OS grid reference
SZ 011 905
Coordinates
50.71432, -1.98559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

73 High Street is a two-storey building with an attic, originally part of a larger early 16th-century house, which included 75 High Street. The front was remodeled in the mid-19th century, and a new shop front was added in the early 21st century. A rear outshut was added in the 20th century.

The building is made of coursed, squared limestone rubble that is rendered, with roofs covered in plain clay tiles. It features a brick gable-end chimney stack. The layout is single-depth, with the former great chamber located on the first floor.

The exterior is three bays wide. The current shop front, installed in 2021, replaced a mid-20th-century version. On the first floor, there are three horned, plate-glass sash windows with cambered heads, above which is a moulded cornice and a 20th-century parapet. The two hipped dormer windows contain three-over-three sash windows, and there are blocked former openings on the north-east wall.

Inside, the building retains three bays of the original early 16th-century, five-bay roof that extends over the adjacent 75 High Street. This roof features straight collars and tie beams, along with alternate curved wind braces. The former first-floor great chamber boasts an enriched early 17th-century plaster ceiling with a geometrical pattern of moulded ribs, foliate bosses, roses, and formal sprays of fruit and foliage, as well as an arabesque frieze. There is a stone fireplace with a three-centre arch, double cyma moulding, moulded stops, and a herringbone brick back. To the left of the fireplace, there is a winder stair with stick balusters.

Local climate

73 High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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